Emily Dickinson Lexicon

starving, verbal adj. [see starve, v.]

Hungry; famished; perishing because of lack of food.

starving, verbal n. [see starve, v.]

Hunger; famine; starvation.

state, adj. [see state, n.]

Covered; inundated; soaked.

state, n. [OFr < L. status, manner of standing, condition, to stand.] (webplay: dignity, estate, grandeur, high, mind, modest, monarchs, nations, pomp, rank, throne).

1. Tranquility; peace.
2. Pomp; grandeur; dignity.
3. Condition; manner of existence; role; rank.
4. Region; political body; government.

state (-d, -s), v. [see state, n.] (webplay: express, set, tell, witnesses, words).

1. Tell; explain to.
2. Make clear; identify.

stated, adj. [L. status, appointed, fixed, regular.]

Established; fixed; non-fluctuating; regularly occurring.

stately (statelier, statlier), adj. [see state, n.] (webplay: grand, majestic).

1. Portentous; meaningful; important; significant; consequential; crucial.
2. Distinguished; honorable; imperial.
3. August; serious.
4. Magnificent; splendid.
5. Arrogant; proud.
6. Enormous; immense.
7. Elevated in sentiment.
8. Honest; virtuous; modest.

stately, adv. [see state, n.] (webplay: majestically).

1. Completely; utterly; absolutely; perfectly.
2. Majestically; wonderfully; elegantly; loftily.

statement (-s), n. [see state, v.]

1. Pronouncement; utterance; declaration; fact; sentence.
2. Announcement; proclamation; prophecy.
3. Existence; expression; definition; description; purpose; condition of being.
4. Account; report; story; scripture passage (see Genesis 5:24).
5. Speech; oration; declamation; [fig.] noise; sound.

statesman (-'s), n. [see state, n. + man, n.]

One who takes a leading part in the affairs of a state or body politics; landholder.