Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: staple – starve
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staple (-d), v. [see staple, n.]
Set, fixed.
star (-'s, -s), n. [OE steorre.] (Bethlehem, star).
- Heavenly body; shining points of light in the night sky; [plural] Milky Way; stellar display.
- Celebrity; genius; great one; special person; selected indivual.
- A general term for a point of light in a constellation.
- Wish; miracle; special phenomenon; beautiful thing; signal of hope; dream to come true.
- Small meteorite; shooting star.
- Lesser light; smaller celestial being; less prominent but nevertheless worthy of heaven.
- Sparkling entity; glittering orb.
- Reflection; glimmer.
- Lofty goal; unreachable object.
- Director; guide; heavenly map; divine guidance.
- Polar center; central point in the heavens around which other heavenly bodies move.
- The United States flag; the red, white, and blue emblem of the independent government in North America.
- Six-pointed symbol [*]; pointed punctuation mark in a text; [fig.] heavenly being; splendid multi-faceted person who has left mortality but leaves a hint of eternal life.
- Saint; righteous person; being of great renown.
- Bright orb; glowing point of light; distant object in the night sky.
- Phrase. “border star”: evening planet on faintly visible on the horizon at sunset; [metaphor] frontier newspaper in Missouri in the mid-1800's.
- Phrase. “Morning Stars”: pre-mortal choir; female singers who rejoiced when the Lord laid the earth's foundations; daughters of God who sang for joy when the world was created (see Job 38:4-7).
- Phrase. “the Morning Star”: Venus; the second planet from the sun in Earth's solar system; the star-like planet that appears in the east just before dawn; [fig.] the Lord; the resurrection of the dead (see Revelation 2:28, 22:16).
- Phrase. “Star of Bethleem/Bethlehem”: astrological phenomenon; extremely bright body of light that appeared in the sky at the birth of Jesus (see Matthew 2:1-10).
- Phrase. “the northern star”: polar center; Arctic view of the sky; compass point in the heavens around which other heavenly bodies move.
stare, n. [see stare, v.]
Open-eyed gaze.
stare (-d, -s, staring), v. [OE starian, to be rigid, to look fixedly.]
- Gaze; look with wonder; peer at with surprise.
- Stand out; be prominent.
- Nod; point.
- Roam; plod; pushing.
stark (-est), adj. [OE 'to grow rigid, strength, strong, become frozen'.]
- Bleak; desolate.
- Gross; mere; absolute.
starless, adj. [see star, n.]
Without stars; without light.
start, n. [OE steort.]
- An impulsive movement of the body; a sudden jilt of the body.
- Energy; excitement.
- Act of beginning a trip or journey to a certain destination.
start (-ed), v. [OE 'to overthrow, overturn, empty, to pour out, to rush, to gush out'.] (webplay: quick, quickened).
- Spring to attention.
- Become active; to come into motion.
- Begin; to come into being.
- Incite; startle; suddenly bother; abruptly rouse with alarm; movement of body involuntarily due to surprise, fright, etc.
- Begin a trip or journey to a certain destination.
startle (-d), v. [see start, v.]
- Shake or twitch due to terror or unexpected surprise.
- Be filled with fright; become shocked.
starve (-d), v. [OE 'to be rigid, to die'.] (webplay: famine).
- Lack food; suffer with extreme hunger.
- Die because of severe hunger.