Emily Dickinson Lexicon

waste (-ed), v. [North-eastern OFr waste-r.] (webplay: dead, decay, man, never, spend, time, wilderness).

1. Squander; lose through carelessness.
2. Spend; exhaust; use up.
3. Dwindle; diminish by gradual dissipation; melt.

watch, n. [OE wæcce.] (webplay: eyes, house, morning, nature, order.).

1. Clock; small time-keeping device carried in the pocket or on the person.
2. [Fig.] timing; sense of the correct order of things.

watch (-ed), v. [OE wæcc-.] (webplay: blue, Eyes, gave, house, lie, long, nights, Sleep).

1. Follow with the eye; observe attentively; gaze steadily at.
2. Wait expectantly; look vigilantly.

watcher (-s), n. [see watch, n.]

One who goes without sleep to attend to the sick during the night.

water (-s, -'s), n. [OE wæterian.] (webplay: air, billows, bodies, bourne, cattle, clock, color, cool, cover, desert, drink, drop, earth, eyes, first, floated, floods, god, hilly, land, lily, living, mail, nature, ocean, place, plains, powerful, rain, raised, rivers, sail, seas, ships, supply, snow, sound, springs, stones, summer, taste, tide, tight, waves, way).

wave (-s), n. [OE wafian, undulate.] (webplay: away, beckon, billows, claim, going, loosely, purple, smallest, still, swell, thrown, water, way, wind).

1. Moving swell or volume of water, raised and driven by wind; [fig.] something resembling a moving swell of water.
2. Sea; ocean waters.

wave (-d), v. [see wave, n.] (webplay: inequality, water.).

[Fig.] Drift away slowly; gradually depart.

wavering, adj. [ME waver, wever; ON vafra to move unsteadily, flicker + -ing.] (webplay: unsettled, way).

Fluctuating; unsettled; vacillating.

wax (-ing), v. [OE weaxan.] (webplay: silvery).

Become; grow.

way (-s), n. [OE weg.] (webplay: act, advance, belt, broad, come, die, discourse, earth, enemy, farmers, go, heavens, know, lane, light, life, manner, magnify, meaning, men, motion, opinion, passing, place, practice, road, space, star, street, thinking, travel, weigh, works, year).

1. Direction; course.
2. Path; road; route; avenue.
3. Manner; fashion; style; custom; habit; practice.
4. Means; device; implementation.
5. Distance; length.
6. Journey; quest; trek.
7. State of being; tendency; perception.
8. Appropriate method; proper procedure; effective process; correct technique; right course of action; most effective means.
9. Gate; passage; medium of access.
10. [Fig.] Christian lifestyle; gospel calling.
11. Condition; situation; circumstance.
12. Period; amount of time; [fig.] distance.
13. Phrase. “By the way”: in passing; down the road; along the path; in the route commonly taken; [word play] in the process; in the course of events.