Emily Dickinson Lexicon

tight (-er, -est), adv. [ON þéhtr.]

1. Firmly; securely.
2. Intensely; with increased pressure; with a determination not to let go.
3. Restrained; constrained; held captive; narrowly confined; not free to move; in a very small amount of space.
4. Closely; narrowly.
5. Densely; heavily; [fig.] with intense atmospheric pressure.
6. Phrase. “the tighter”: more firmly; in a stronger grip; with greater intensity in touching; with an increase in the pressure of physical contact.