Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: seller – sepal
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seller (-'s), n. [see sell, v.] (webplay: buy).
Merchant; dealer; salesman; one who exchanges goods to make a living.
send (-ing, -s, sent), v. [OE 'to go, way, journey'.] (webplay: come, go).
- Dispatch; forward; route; cause to go.
- Deliver to; convey to; transfer to; cause to arrive to.
sensation, n. [see sense, n.]
An operation of any of the senses; a psychical affection or state of consciousness consequent on and related to a particular condition of some portion of the bodily organism, or a particular impression received by one of the organs of sense. Now commonly in more precise use, restricted to the subjective element in any operation of one of the senses, a physical “feeling” considered apart from the resulting “perception” of an object.
sense (-s), n. [Fr. < L. 'perception, feeling'.] (webplay: discern, feel, hearing, instinct, meaning, mind, reason, tasting).
- Ability to feel; sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and so forth. (
- Being; consciousness; identity.
- Significance; meaning; intimation; definition; [word play] sensory perception from the physical world. (1062)
- Sanity; lucidity; order; rationality.
- [Fig.] One's body; means whereby one perceives the physical world.
sentence (-s), n. [Fr. < L. 'feel, have an opinion'.] (webplay: death, doom, imprisonment, pause, pronounced, verb, word).
- Main clause statement; independent syntactic unit, comprised of a subject and a predicate; [Webster 1844] “a number of words containing complete sense or a sentiment followed by a full pause.”
- Penalty; conviction under the law; prescribed punishment, given by one in authority.
sentence (-d), v. [see sentence, n.] (webplay: convicted).
Punish; condemn; convict.
sentenced, verbal adj. [see sentence, n.] (webplay: pause).
Punished; convicted; penalized; condemned; [word play on the noun “sentence”] inscribed; thoughtful; insightful; earnest; [fig.] worried; wrinkled with concern.
sentiment (-s), n. [OFr < L. sentīre, feel.] (webplay: mind).
- Feeling; opinion; musing; reflection; view; thought; personal concern. (1279)
- Sympathy; affinity; compassion; expression of affection.
sentinel (-s), n. [Fr. 'watch-tower' < It.]
Sentry; guard; watchperson; someone designated to protect something.
sepal, n. [Fr.]
Division of the green, leafy cup out of which flower petals grow.