Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: something – sooty
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something (-'s), n. [see some, adj. + thing, n.]
- An indeterminate thing or feeling; an unknown event or thing.
- A kind of person or thing that belongs to a place or group were everything has similar characteristics.
- A part of.
- An inexplicable thing.
- A small part; a certain part.
sometime (-s), adv. [see some, adv. + time, n.]
- At one time or another; now and then; on a particular occasion.
- A past time, once.
- One thing at one occasion, another thing at a different occasion.
somewhat, adv. [see somewhat, n.]
More or less; indeterminate quantity.
somewhat, n. [see some, adj. + what, pron.]
- A part; greater or less.
- An uncertain amount; thing of unspecified nature.
- A certain amount.
somewhere, adv. [see some, adj. + where, adv.]
- In, at or to an unspecified, indeterminate place.
- In one place or another.
son, n. [OE.]
- Male heir; young man ready to marry.
- Male offspring of deity.
- Heir; descendant; successor.
- Male child; little boy.
- Creature; child; offspring without reference to gender.
- Result; product; consequence.
- Phrase. “Son of God”: Jesus Christ; first-born only-begotten child of Heavenly Father and Mary of Nazareth; divine man who experienced suffering, mediated sin, and overcame death for all humankind because he is the offspring of an eternal father and a mortal mother; (see Daniel 3:25; Matthew 4:3).
song, n. [OE; see sing, v.]
Utter words or sounds.
soon (-er, -est), adv. [OE sóna, at once, immediately.]
sooth (-ed), v. [OE, 'to prove truth'.]
sooty, adj. [ON. and Icel. < OE besútod, defiled, foul.]
Blackened; scorched; dirty.