Emily Dickinson Lexicon

trace (-d, -ing), v. [ME trace-n.] (webplay: passing, seen, track).

1. Follow; discern; ascertain; perceive; understand.
2. Draw; outline; mark out.
3. Sew; follow with stitches.

track (-s), n. [OFr trac.] (webplay: foot, passed, road, stepping, trace).

Footprint(s); trace of passing; marks left behind attesting to passing.

trackless, adj. [see track, n.]

Traceless; unfollowable; not marked by footprints.

tract (-s), n. [L. tractatus.]

1. Region; area; expanse.
2. Essence; continuity; extent.

trade (-s), n. [MLG trade.] (webplay: commerce).

1. Business; occupation; employment; profession.
2. Commerce; exchange of commodities; business of bartering.
3. Custom; habit; occupation.
4. [Fig.] that which is profane or worldly.

tradition (-s, -'s), n. [OFr tradicion, delivery, surrender, handing down, instruction, doctrine.] (webplay: word).

1. Legend; fairy tale; story passed down through generations.
2. Custom; practice or belief passed through generations as proper or correct.
3. Folk wisdom.
4. [Fig.] thing which no longer exists; entity of long ago; something remembered only through legends.

traffic, n. [Fr. trafique.] (webplay: merchantmen).

Commerce; trade; exchange of goods.

trafficking, adj. [see traffic, n.]

Commercial; trading; bartering; exchange.

tragedy, n. [OFr tragedie.] (webplay: action, dramatic, human, lives).

1. Drama; dramatic performance involving a catastrophic event or fatal issue.
2. Misfortune; mournful event; adverse condition.

tragic, adj. [L.]

Sad; sorrowful; dreadful; ironic.