Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Find (-s, -ing, found)
find (-s, -ing, found), v. [OE findan.] (webplay: accord, aid, ask, assault, before, bring, business, catch, come, discover, ease, expedition, experiment, eye, few, first, gain, gate, given, glory, God, guilty, have, hidden, house, knowledge, learn, life, light, lost, meaning, meet, obtain, pain, provisions, reach, recover, search, searching, secret, seek, seen, self, set, sight, sounding, sum, thief, torrid, touching, truth, unknown, unriddle, visit, way, woods, zone).
- Recover; regain; recuperate; locate something.
- Realize; comprehend; grasp mentally; (see Numbers 32:23).
- See; perceive; feel; sense; (see Genesis 10:11).
- Discover; come upon.
- Detect; notice; observe; (see Genesis 18:28).
- Encounter; bump into; come upon; succeed in reaching; (see Genesis 4:14).
- Consider; regard; declare; make known; (see Genesis 47:25).
- Phrase. “find out”: discover; understand; ascertain; learn; reveal by examination; test by experiment; (see Job 11:17).
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