Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Field (-s)
field (-s), n. [OE.] (webplay: distance, down, farm, garden, ground, hay, house, ice, keep, laborers, land, live, lost, meadow, mowing, picture, plain, wide, winter, wood).
- Meadow; open land; piece of ground; outskirts of town; (see Genesis 24:63).
- Piece of land; part of a farm; area enclosed for tillage or pasture; (see Genesis 23:17).
- Orchard; garden; area of specific growth; expanse of agriculture; (see Genesis 2:5).
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