Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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

Not marked by anything; smooth; without crevice; boundless; unconfined; immaculate; bottomless.

sear, adj. [OE < Gk. 'drying up, withering'.]

Dried up; weakened.

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

To cause to wither; to blight.

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

1. [Lit.] seeking to discover; quest; [fig.] process of discovering.
2. Looking for something; going round in order to find something.
3. [Lit.] investigation; scrutiny; the attempt to locate, detect, track down, pin down, lay one's hands on; [fig.] possession; ownership; occupancy.

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

1. To look for.
2. Look into; explore; examine.
3. To probe.

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

1. Inquiring.
2. Looking into in a penetrating manner.
3. [Lit.] looking for; seeking; [fig.] pining for.

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

Land bordering on the sea.

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

1. An ideal; imagined place and time; summer.
2. Spring.
3. Summer.
4. The four equal periods into which the year is divided.
5. Spring and Summer
6. Summer; fall; winter.
7. A period of time characteristic of something; an instance characteristic of a class or group; sort; kind.
8. [Lit.] one of the four equal periods into which the year is divided; [fig.] years ago; some continual period of time, marked by some number of seasons; unit of time.

seat, n. [ON; see sit, v.] (webplay: guests, time, judgement, hills).

1. [Lit.] a place to seat; [fig.] an alloted place.
2. A throne, on which God sits on the day of Judgement.
3. Destined place; fate; tomb; death.

seat (-ed, -s), v. [see seat, n.] (webplay: tables, chair).

1. [Lit.] to provide the place to seat; [fig.] to support; to hold.
2. To find a place to seat down or to provide the place to seat; to assign seats in church.
3. To place.
4. To take a seat.