Emily Dickinson Lexicon

please (-d, -s), v. [ME plaise < L. placēre, to be pleasing or agreeable.] (webplay: choose, condescend, content, dull, dwell, eye, friend, gay, good, grace, heart's desire, joy, landscape, like, lords, meet, men-pleasers, please God, sailing, saying, show, sight, sounds, taste, view, worldly).

1. Satisfy; content; interest; delight; make happy.
2. Allow; grant; permit; make possible.
3. Deign; condescend.
4. Have mercy; show compassion.
5. Desire; want; like; choose; prefer.
6. Suit, be appropriate (for); be fitting (for).
7. Excite; [fig.] ripple; agitate; disturb.