Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: vat – vellum
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vat (-s), n. [variant of fat, OE fatu.] (webplay: laid, liquors, wine).
Cask; vessel for storing liquid.
Vatican, proper n. [L. mons vaticinia, hill of prophecies.] (webplay: hills).
Palace of the Pope; headquarters of the Catholic Church in Rome; religious city-state in Italy containing buildings, chapels, museums, and a library; [fig.] art exhibit; spacious gallery; magnificent palace.
vault (-ed), v. [OFr volter, to gambol, leap.] (webplay: death, flowers, turn).
Jump; leap; hurdle; bound; spring.
vaunt, n. [OFr < L. vānus, vain, empty.] (webplay: boasting, first).
Boast; brag; arrogance; vainglorious language.
vegetation (-'s), n. [L. vegetātio.] (webplay: nature, plants).
Flora; foliage; verdure; greenery; growing things; plant life; the vegetable kingdom.
vehemence, n. [L. vehementia.] (webplay: urgent).
Willingness; insistence; urgency.
vehicle (-s), n. [L. vehěre, to carry.] (webplay: cart, chariots, coaches, kind, style, thought, wagons, wheel).
- Coach; carriage; conveyance; wagon; [fig.] cause of inspiration; means of transcendence.
- Chariot; heavenly mode of transportation; (see 2 Kings 2:11-12).
veil, n. [spelling variation; see vail, n.]
vein (-s), n. [L. vēna.] (webplay: along, arteries, blood, branch, come, finer, flowers, marble, nerves, open, pass, sense, stones, strain, term, thinking, traced).
- Blood vessel; fluid-bearing tube; linear element of the human circulatory system.
- Ditch; trench; canal; course; [fig.] stream of fallen leaves moving uphill in the wind.
- Channel; conduit; carrier; [fig.] exemplar; model; pattern.
- Duct; heart-bound vas; vessel that carries blood toward the heart.
vellum, adj. [OFr < L. vitulus, calf.]
Fine parchment; printing material made from the skin of a calf.