Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Wall (-s)
walk (-ed, -s, -ing)waltz (-ed)
wall (-s), n. [OE; natural rampart, hill, cliff.] (webplay: builds, danger, houses, men, place, spring, stone, take, water).
- Fence; structure enclosing a garden; division between pieces of land.
- Side of a building; flat vertical plane in a structure.
- Partition; side of a room in a house where pictures are hung as decoration.
- Bricks held together with mortar.
- Barrier; divider; [fig.] veil.
- Surface; [fig.] page; tablet; (see Daniel 5:5).
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