Emily Dickinson Lexicon

series, n. [L. row, 'chain, join, connect'.]

Succession; sequence; continued course.

sermon, n. [AFr < L. 'talk, discourse, speech'.]

A discourse, usually delivered from a pulpit and based upon a text of Scripture, for the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation.

serpent (-'s), n. [OFr < L. 'creeping thing, crawling, serpent'.]

Snake; creeping thing or reptile; one of a venomous or noxious kind.

servant, n. [see serve, v.] (webplay: abroad, angels, bring, command, day, do, less, low, preferment, seek, time).

Domestic attendant; valet; personal helper who performs menial tasks for another.

serve (-d), v. [OFr < L. 'to be a servant or slave'.] (webplay: achievement, act, bring, apply, artifice, bestow, content, day, favor, given, God, greater, hairs, happiness, house, human, judge, keep, knee, light, loved, lowest, marriage, obey, person, read, sea, seek, seize, self, solos, spirit, stops, satisfy, sufficient, thing, time, together, tree, trick, truth, turn, waits, week).

1. Worship; render homage to; in scripture and theology, to give habitual obedience to.
2. Suit; fit; suffice; satisfy; content.
3. Give; offer; presented to, as food or drink.
4. Perform duties for; provide something for; act for the benefit of another; [fig.] rise, as the sun, in order to provide heat and warmth to the earth.

service (-s), n. [OFr < L servitium, slave.] (webplay: abroad, achievement, actual, attendants, attends, attentions, bestow, bright, condition, content, country, custom, day, diligently, dine, end, follower, funeral, God, hairs, household, ignoble, keep, less, loved, lowest, man, mean, mind, musical, peace, place, present, race, read, required, respect, sea, seat, state, spirit, stopping, table, term, think, time, turn, waits, work, worship).

1. Funeral rites; eulogy ritual; observance of the dead with music and remarks of praise; [fig.] profession of respect, honor, allegiance, or veneration.
2. Worship meeting; church liturgy; religious ceremony with music and the spoken word.
3. Effort of body or mind; work to be done ; labor to be performed for the benefit of another.
4. Assistance; aid; benefit.
5. Purpose; function; use.
6. Table setting; set of dishes and other utensils used together for dining.
7. Duty; fee; something owed to a lord by his tenant.

servile, adj. [L 'slave'.] (webplay: base, end, given, state).

Ignoble; low; mean.

session (-s), n. [Fr. < L. sedēre, to sit.]

set (-s, -test, -ting), v. [OE 'to sit'.] (webplay: about, above, action, adjust, adorn, behold, below, best, birds, book, cease, come, compass, darken, day, deceive, despise, diamond, discourse, distances, distinctions, down, duty, ease, east, equal, erect, estate, eternal, eyes, faces, fall, farm, father, features, feet, fine, fire, firmament, fit, floor, found, free, fully, gentleman, God, ground, growth, heads, heart, hill, hour, house, infinite, inspector, institute, irritate, judgment, know, lay, liberate, life, looking, lover, man, natural, noise, north, object, observe, offer, order, own, painful, pass, place, plant, power, price, prove, quiet, recollect, regard, rest, rule, school, sea, search, seat, see, separate, ship, side, situation, shelf, space, standing, stars, state, stop, street, sun, table, team, time, town, tree, truth, value, way, westward, Winter, words, work, world, worst).

1. Put; place; lay; fix.
2. Go down; decline; pass below the horizon, as the sun; [fig.] come to an end; die.
3. Make; cause to be or become.
4. Give; pose; present with.
5. Begin to move.
6. Put in good order.
7. [Word play] fit to music; adapt with notes.
8. Phrase. “Set in”: restore; return to proper place or situation; reduce from a fractured state.
9. Phrase. “Set up(right)”: erect; adjust; ground; place on a firm foundation; cause to stand.

setting, adj. [see set, v.] (webplay: birds, cloud, come, crown, day, ease, eternal, fool's, God, ground, horse, house, know, natural, pass, place, play, quiet, recollect, sea, school, stop, sun, sunset, task, town, truth, way, westward,).

Going down; sinking below or nearing the horizon, as the sun; [fig.] declining, dying.