Emily Dickinson Lexicon

in, prep. [Gmc.] (webplay: air, because, blessed, blinded, Christ, city, close, coal, combined, day, declaring, deed, died, earth, error, fact, glorified, God, health, heat, hill, hour, house, inclosed, land, limits, love, mixed, multiply, name, near, office, part, people, port, prayer, quality, reason, sake, seeing, ship, sickness, sinners, spirits, stead, surface, surrounded, swearing, tea, ten, through, time, under, valley).

1. Coming as; arriving by.
2. During; at a time of.
3. Using; on behalf of; for the sake of; by virtue of; by the authority of; by means of.
4. By; through the medium of.
5. Located upon