Emily Dickinson Lexicon

time (-s, -'s), n. [OE tima.] (webplay: absolute, age, application, believe, clock, come, common, day, distinct, dull, equal, eternity, event, found, future, God, good, head, hour, life, lost, measure, month, music, past, present, process, relative, season, sound, spend, sprit, sun, temple, treble).

1. Mortality; life.
2. The normal course of events; the passing of minutes and hours, days and years.
3. Occasion; moment.
4. The proper moment; an appropriate occasion; the correct or required moment; an acceptable occasion.
5. Period; duration.
6. A long enough period; sufficient duration of minutes, hours, etc.
7. Season.
8. Phrase “in time”: Sufficiently early.
9. The present; the current moment.
10. Instance; occurrence.
11. Reading of the clock; particular hour; specific duration.
12. Like opportunity; repetition of a similar occasion or experience.
13. Phrase “at a time”: at once; together.
14. Phrase “all the time”: always; at every moment.
15. Opportunity.
16. Measure of the passing of minutes and hours; measure of linear temporality.