Emily Dickinson Lexicon

seal (-ed), verbal adj. [see seal, v.] (webplay: engraved, hand).

1. Frozen; nipped; frost-bitten.
2. Royal; authoritative; official.
3. Nominated; elect; chosen; beloved; promised; covenant; [fig.] marked with the Lord's name on the forehead; having a sign of righteousness; (see Revelation 7:3, 9:4, 14:1, 22:4).
4. Closed off; impossible to go back through.
5. Airtight; hermetic; bottled and capped; tightly closed to preserve; [fig.] impervious to outside influences.

seam (-s), n. [OE 'to sow'.] (webplay: a hem, coat, cloth, floor, joint, needle, to become, to sew, without).

1. Ripple; flaw; rift.
2. Joint; group of petals in a bud.
3. Hem; stitching; line of stitches; edge where pieces of fabric are joined.
4. Vein; stratum; deposit of ore.
5. Row; furrow; [fig.] shift; accomplishment; time of productivity.
6. Layer; vein.
7. Bond; binding; [fig.] deathbed; grave site; cemetery plot.
8. Chink; fissure; crack.

seamless, adj. [see seam, n.] (webplay: measure).

Smooth; boundless; unconfined; immaculate; bottomless; without crevice; not marked by anything.

sear (sere), adj. [OE; see sere, adj.]

Brown; dried up; [fig.] dull; serious; lifeless; [possibly a noun modified by the substantive “Innuendo”] burning; fire; scar from a burn.

sear (-s), v. [OE searian, to dry.]

Blight; burn; scorch; cause to wither; [fig.] kill; remove sustenance from.

search, n. [AFr 'seek' < L. circare, to go round, circle.] (webplay: place, report, to find, unknown).

1. Investigation; scrutiny; attempt to locate, detect, track down, pin down, or lay hands on; [fig.] possession; ownership; occupancy.
2. Phrase. “in search of”: looking; in a quest for; desiring to discover; going in all directions in order to find.

search (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [see search, n.] (webplay: more, to inquire, to try).

1. Seek to discover; desire to obtain.
2. Examine; look in a penetrating manner.
3. Look; seek; [fig.] pine for.
4. Expect; await.
5. Explore; study; research; investigate.
6. Probe.

searching, verbal adj. [see search, n.] (webplay: dead, death, knowledge, lost).

Inquiring; hoping; hunting; questing.

seashore, n. [see sea, n. + shore, n.]

Beach; strand; land bordering on the sea.

season (-s, -'s), n. [ME < L. satiōn-em, act or time of sowing, seed-time.] (webplay: climate year, cold, days, fit, nature, sun, spring, summer, winter, time).

1. One of the four equal three-month periods of the year; climate-based time periods known as spring, summer, fall, and winter.
2. Ideal place and time.
3. Period of time; instance characteristic of a class, group, sort, or kind.
4. Time; portion; set of days.
5. Summer.
6. Years ago; long period of time; several units of time.