Emily Dickinson Lexicon

timber (-s), n. [OE build.]

Wood of growing trees.

timbrel (-s), n. [OFr timbre, kettledrum.]

Tambourine-like instrument.

Timbuctoo, proper n. [now “Timbuktu”; < Tuareg 'old,' or 'ancient'; or, Timbutu, hollow.]

Town near the Sahara in West Africa; principle city in nineteenth-century Africa that only three white men had visited; [fig.] most distant place imaginable.

time (-s, -'s), n. [OE tima.] (webplay: absolute, age, application, believe, clock, come, common, day, distinct, dull, equal, eternity, event, found, future, God, good, head, hour, life, lost, measure, month, music, past, present, process, relative, season, sound, spend, sprit, sun, temple, treble).

1. Mortality; life.
2. The normal course of events; the passing of minutes and hours, days and years.
3. Occasion; moment.
4. The proper moment; an appropriate occasion; the correct or required moment; an acceptable occasion.
5. Period; duration.
6. A long enough period; sufficient duration of minutes, hours, etc.
7. Season.
8. Phrase “in time”: Sufficiently early.
9. The present; the current moment.
10. Instance; occurrence.
11. Reading of the clock; particular hour; specific duration.
12. Like opportunity; repetition of a similar occasion or experience.
13. Phrase “at a time”: at once; together.
14. Phrase “all the time”: always; at every moment.
15. Opportunity.
16. Measure of the passing of minutes and hours; measure of linear temporality.

timid, adj. [L. timid-us, fear.] (webplay: triumph).

1. Shy; hesitant; uncertain; not bold.
2. Trembling; shaking.
3. Humble; meek.
4. Grave; solemn; frightening.

timid, adv. [see timid, adj.]

Softly; humbly; meekly; not boldly; without pride.

timidity, n. [L. timiditās.] (webplay: bold).

Fearfulness; anxiety; trepidation.

timidly, adv. [see timid, adj.]

Humbly; quietly; meekly.

timidness, n. [see timidity, n.]

Humility; meekness; anxiety; trepidation.

tincture (-ed), n. [L. tinctūra, a dyeing, tinging.]

Dye; color; hue; drop of stain; [fig.] hint; touch.