Emily Dickinson Lexicon

wide-wandering, adj. [see wide, adj. and wandering, adj.]

Far-traveling; seeking everywhere; rambling great distances.

width (-s), n. [OE widnes.] (webplay: Door, thing).

1. Huge expanse as in the sky, spirit, or hospitality.
2. Empty; vacant; capacious of time or space.
3. Band or view of something as hospitality.
4. Narrowness.
5. Measurement of limit.

wife ('s, wives), noun. [Sax. wif, woman.] (webplay: husband, love, man, wedlock, woman.).

1. One who has crossed the dividing line between girlhood and womanhood, who has achieved some power; one who is officially part of a couple; one who has pledged love, trust, constancy, affection.
2. Woman who is a victim of abuse; passive person.
3. Woman who is no longer a maid, no longer chaste; bride; victorious, perhaps a bride of Christ, resurrected.
4. One who accepts obligations, serious status with requirements, responsibility, labor, and, possibly, loss.
5. Woman linked in an established relationship, usually – but not always – by religious rites or legal documents and signs.

wifehood, noun. [see wife, n.] (webplay: wife).

State attached to love, trust, constancy, anguish, burdens, responsibilities.

wild (-er), adj. [OE wilde, bewildered, astray.]

1. Stormy; turbulent; windy; rough weather; [fig.] intense; tempestuous.
2. Native; undomesticated; uncultivated; untamed; common; raised in a natural state.]
3. Wondrous; miraculous; remarkable; marvelous. (1333/1356)
4. Uninhabited; unpopulated; unsettled.
5. Impetuous; rash; thoughtless; imprudent; irresponsible; unreasonable.
6. Uncontrollable; unrestrainable.

wild, adv. [see wild, adj.]

Turbulently; tempestuously; tumultuously.

wilderness, n. [OE *wild(d)éornes, place of wild animals.] (webplay: desert, human).

1. Badlands; wasteland; uncivilized region; uninhabited area; uncultivated tract of land; unknown expanse.
2. [Fig.] emptiness; bleakness; desolation; hollowness.

wile, n. [early ME wil.] (webplay: against).

Manner that entices, tempts, is playful, induces or obtains by craft or cunning; trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; insidious artifice.

will, n. [OE willa.]

1. Faculty of mind which decides in exercising judgement.
2. Desire, wish, longing; liking, inclination, disposition to do.
3. Choice, determination, selection.
4. Commandment; divine purpose or counsel.
5. Testament, deposition of an estate; favor.

will, (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [OE; see will, n.]

1. Decide; demand; determine; enforce.
2. To decide, bring about or effect.
3. Disposed of by will; assigned by legal testament.