Emily Dickinson Lexicon

reply, n. [see reply, v.] (webplay: ply, words).

Answer; response.

reply (-ing, replied, replies), v. [OFr replier, to fold again, turn back, reply.] (webplay: answer, God, man, said, send).

Answer; respond

report (-s), n. [see report, v.] (webplay: answer, back, discovered, land, mentioned, publicly, spoken, tell, wisdom).

1. News; account; statement of information.
2. Rumor; slight chance.

report (-ed, -s), v. [AFr < L. re- + portāre, to carry.] (acts, sound, tell).

1. Relate; tell; state; narrate; describe; relay information; give an account; give news; convey a message.
2. Tell of; give an account of; convey information about someone.
3. Go; move; change position.
4. Bring; carry; convey; cause to move.

reported, verbal adj. [see report, v.] (webplay: seldom).

Told about; stated; communicated to others.

reporter, n. [see report, v.] (webplay: heard, returned, tell).

One who gives an account.

reportless, adj. [see report, v.] (webplay: answer).

Undistinguished; not well known; without repute.

repose, n. [see repose, v.] (webplay: friend, lay, mind, rest, tranquillity).

1. Rest; relaxation; state of quiet or peaceful inaction; [fig.] death; final act of resting.
2. Calm; leisure; peacefulness; absence of activity.
3. Place of rest; location at which relaxation can take place.

repose (-d), v. [Fr. reposer < late L. re- + pausāre, to halt, cease.] (webplay: sleep).

Recline; lie down; stretch out; lay (oneself) to rest; lodge (one) for the night.

reprehend, v. [L. re- + prehendere, to seize.]

To chide; to reprove; to censure; to rebuke. 1260 Of Heaven and Hell, I also yield / The right to reprehend.