Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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Remind; cause to remember; hinder from forgetting. 1147/1149 Nobody knows the Place … Winds of Summer Fields / Recollect the way – Instinct picking up the Key / Dropped by memory

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the past; previous experience; former times. 1507/1337 The Pile of Years is not so high / As when you came before / But it is rising every Day / From recollection's Floor recompense, n. [see recompense, v.] Reward; compensation; prize; payment; restitution; earned privilege. 398/554 I'd tunnel – till my Groove / Pushed sudden thro' to his – / Then my face take her Recompense – / The looking in his Eyes recompense, v. [OFr < Late L. re-, again + com-, together + penděre, weigh.] Compensate for; repay; give an adequate return for. 557/564 Her Night doth hardly recompense / The Closing of Her eyes record, n. [see record, v.] (webplay: flute, heart, recite, tune).

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Brightly-colored; vivid; brilliant [referring to flowers, fruit, leaves, or feathers]; [fig.] autumnal [referring to leaves turning colors in the fall season.] 18/21 The Maple's loom is red – / My departing blossoms / Obviate parade

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Intensely; fervently; passionately; hotly; with a raging flame; [fig.] with potential for dangerous eruption. 1677/1743 On my volcano grows the Grass … An acre for a Bird … How red the Fire rocks below red (-s), n. [OE réad < Germanic *rauðo-z.] (webplay: bird, blood, breast, bright, color, decline, down, eyes, flame, hues, summer, teach, tree, whites).

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blood. 236/251 Faint Star of Bethleem – / Gone down! … a little life – for His – / Is leaking – red redbreast, n. [see red, n. and breast, n.] (webplay: bird, cheeks, Red Sea, robin, summer).

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death; passing from mortal existence; release from the bondage and sorrows of mortality. 1297/1322 Go rapid, lest Competing Death / Prevail … Go boldly – for thou paid'st his price / Redemption – for a Kiss redignified, v. [see redignify, v.] redignify (redignified), v. [L. re, again + OFr < L. dign-us, worthy + -ficāre, to make.] (webplay: honor). Exalt; glorify; make holy; invest with due honor; restore to a royal position; [fig.] resurrected; risen from the dead; restored to life in a glorified and perfected body. 833/273 Do those at Sacrament // Commemorate Dishonor / Or love … Until it bend as low as Death / Redignified, above? redoubled, adv. [Fr. redoubler < L. re-, again + L. duplāre, double, fold up.] With added intensity; with multiplied strength; with additional force; with increased volume; with magnified power. 794/846 The Birds redoubled sung – / The Sunshine threw his Hat away, / The Bushes spangles flung redoubt, n. [Fr. < medieval L. reductus, secret place, refuge.] Small fortress; meager refuge; frail sanctuary; minimal protection from harm; [fig.] body; physical tabernacle; mortal being; [fig] dispute; defense; debate; argument; retort. 1529/1551 'Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War … Each was to each the Pink Redoubt redoubtable (-st), adj. [Fr. re-, again + douter, doubt < L. dubitāre, waver in opinion, hesitate.] Formidable; terrible; intimidating; frightening; terrifying; inspiring dread. 1417/1440 Of subjects that resist / Redoubtablest is this / Where go we … after this? redress, n. [Fr. < L. re-, again + OFr dresse-r, arrange.] Reparation; recompense; rectification; compensation; amends; indemnification; legal restitution for damages incurred. 1167/1174 The Statute is my Learned friend / But what redress can be / For an offence not here nor there Red Sea, proper n. [Heb. yam-sūf, sea of reeds.] Long narrow sea; body of water in the Middle East; waterway between northeastern Africa and the Arabian peninsula; water that Moses parted to lead the children of Israel through to the Promised Land (see Exodus 14); [fig.] colorful sunset. 1642/1681 “Red Sea” indeed! Talk not to me / Of purple Pharoah reduce (-d, -s), v. [L. redūcěre, bring back, restore, replace < re-, again + dūcěre, lead, bring.] (webplay: consequence, excellence, known, place, poverty, price, proportion, smaller, spirit).

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Degrade; cheapen; debase; demean. 709/788 Poverty – be justifying … Possibly – but We – would rather … reduce no Human Spirit / To Disgrace of Price

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words; lyrics; sentiments; repeated pleadings. 238/309 Oh, could you catch her last Refrain … “forgive” refresh, v. [OFr re-, again + fresche, fresh.] (webplay: spirits). Renew; revive; rejuvenate; enliven; invigorate; give new strength; relieve from fatigue. 1592/1613 Lassitudes of Contemplation … are the spirit's still vacation / That him refresh refreshing, verbal adj. [see refresh, v.] (webplay: mind, strength).

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Decline to answer; refrain from yielding. 793/753 before He'll tell – / Burn Him … His Ashes … if they refuse – How then know refuse, n. [see refuse, v.] Garbage; junk; trash; rubbish; debris; litter; useless items; [fig.] unimportant details; trivial aspects of memories. 1182/1234 Remembrance … 'Tis something like a House / It has a Garret also / For Refuse and the Mouse refute (-s), v. [L. refūtāre, repel, repress, rebut < re-, again + -fūta-, pour out.] Deny; negate; nullify; show not to exist; prove to be impossible; [fig.] block out; obstruct from view. 216/124 Midnight in Marble – / Refutes – the Suns regal, adj. [OFr regal or L. rex, king + ālis, pertaining to.] Royal; kingly; distinguished; grand; majestic; splendid. 648/762 [Regal] Dews of Morn // To demand, in Your low favor regale, v. [Fr. régaler.] (webplay: birds). Please; delight; charm; gladden; gratify; refresh; enliven; invigorate. 1160/1173 Birds are resuming for Him … Add an Amber Crumb / Him – to regale regaling, n. [see regale, v.] Meal; fare; course; sustenance. 773/872 Deprived of other Banquet, / I entertained Myself – / At first – a [plain Regaling] – / An insufficient Loaf regard (-ed, -s), v. [Fr. re-, again + garder, guard < Germ. *wardâ, ward.] (webplay: day, eyes, heart, look, love, mind, observe, seen, solemn, value, worthy).

C,

Contemplate; study; examine; look at; size up; meet eyes with. 1031/1084 when Her Worst was done … He – unmoved regarded Her

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mountain range; cluster of mountain peaks. 666/752 Ah, Teneriffe! / Retreating Mountain! … Sunset – reviews her Sapphire Regiment … Clad in your Mail of ices region (-s), n. [L. regiōn-em, direction, line, boundary, quarter, district < regěre, direct.] Place; area; location; zone; territory; land; country. 1149/1154 I noticed People disappeared … Supposed they visited remote / Or settled Regions wild register (-ed), v. [Fr. or medieval L. registrum < late L. regerěre, record, set down.] (webplay: book).

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remembrance; mind; thoughts. 853/961 When One has given up One's life / The parting with the rest / Feels easy … Remain in Her regret … scarcely regret, v. [Fr. regretter.] (webplay: All forsook, An unknown esteem possessing, Less accounted then, recollecting). Rue; lament; feel sorry for; experience remorse for. 966/827 Dropped – my fate – a timid Pebble – / In thy bolder Sea – / Prove – me – Sweet – if I regret it regulate (-s), v. [Late L. rēgula, rule, straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern.] (webplay:).

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ring; peal; toll; sound. 702/732 A first fair Going – / When the Bells rejoice rejoin, v. [Fr. re-, again + joindre, join.] (webplay: grow, near, reply). Return to; come back to; be reunited with; meet again. 500/370 I rejoin my Dog … He … Refers my clumsy eye – To just vibrating Blossoms! / An exquisite Reply! rekindle (-d), v. [L. re-, again + ON kynd-a, kindle; see kindle.] (webplay: action). Spark; light again; cause to glow again after a period of darkness; [fig.] arouse; evoke; trigger; awaken; bring to mind again; activate a dormant memory of. 1468/1502 A winged spark doth soar about … A speck of Rapture [Rekindled] / by some action quaint relate (-d), v. [L. relāt- < referre; see refer, v.]

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Detachment; separation; removal; amputation. 1359/1394 That makes the Ear inordinate / For corporal release relegate (-s), v. [L. re-, back + lēgāre, send.] Delegate; remand; transfer; exile; [word play; pun on “regulate”] dominate; govern; command; rule over; preside in; [pun on “re-legacy”] continue to endow; provide another inheritance to; [pun on “re-legate”] represent; serve again as ambassador to; act as messenger for; have sacred authority in. 1300/1339 From his slim Palace in the Dust / He relegates the Realm relent, v. [L. re-, back + lent-us, tough, sticky, viscous, slow.] Yield; give in; feel compassion; soften in temper; grow less severe. 687/196 Who knows”but at the sight of that / My Sovereign will relent? relief, n. [see relieve, v.] (webplay: boldness, plane, repose, sun, wrong).

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Stay; abide; continue in the same place. 518/611

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Recall; recollect; bring to mind; think of after not having in mind for a time. 414/425 As if a Goblin with a Guage / Kept measuring the Hours / Until you felt your Second / Weigh, helpless, in his Paws / And not a Sinew – stirred – could help, / And sense was setting numb / When God – remembered – and the Fiend / Let go, then, Overcome

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Kept in mind; recollected involuntarily. 341/372 The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, / And Yesterday, or Centuries before? … This is the Hour of Lead / Remembered, if outlived, / As freezing persons, recollect the Snow

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Memorial; record; something to remind one of a person who has left. 1502/1531 remind (-ed, -s), v. [L. re-, again + ME mynd < Germanic *mun-, think, remember, intend.] (webplay: mind).

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High; distant; far away; out of the way. 306/630 Or She – Herself – ascended / To too remote a Hight

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Go; depart; leave; move to somewhere else. 1756/1771 To winter to remove / With winter to abide removed, adj. [see remove, v.] (webplay: take). Separated; taken away; moved apart. 272/308 I breathed enough to take the Trick / And now, removed from Air / I simulate the Breath, so well removing, verbal adj. [see remove, v.] (webplay: death, leave, residence, thing). Moving; changing; hard to comprehend. 1221/1210 Simpler are the Days than the Supposition / Their removing Manners / Leave us to presume rend, v. [OE rendan.] Tear apart; [fig.] surprise; frighten; catch unawares; burst in on; come unexpectedly to. 1325/1333 These seceded from your summits / Centuries ago – / Should they rend you with “How are you” / What have you to show? render (-ed), v. [OFr < L. *renděre < re-, back + dare, give.] (webplay: demand, surrender).

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Give; deliver; present; furnish; provide; supply. 852/959 Apology for Her / Be rendered by the Bee rendezvous, n. [Fr. rendez vous, present or betake yourselves; see render, v.] Meeting; appointment; appointed place. 1564/1624 Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, / Pangless except for us renegade, adj. [Sp. renegado < medieval L. renegatus < re-, again + negāre, deny.] Rebellious; mutinous; heedless; disobedient; defiant; obstinate; stubborn. 1635/1670 The Jay his Castanet has struck … The Tippet that ignores his voice / [Is renegade] to nature renew, v. [L. re-, again + OE níwe, new.]

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Honor; privilege; distinction. 444/524 One envies the Distinguished Dust … The price is great … It may be – a Renown to live – / I think the Men who die … Present Divinity

C,

Go; move; change position. 812/962 Then as Horizons step / Or Noons report away … It passes and we stay

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Place of rest; location at which relaxation can take place. 943/890 To Him who on it's small Repose / Bestows a single Friend / Circumstance without Relief / Or Estimate – or End repose (-d), v. [Fr. reposer < late L. re- + pausāre, to halt, cease.] (webplay: sleep). Recline; lie down; stretch out; lay (oneself) to rest; lodge (one) for the night. 784/886 The Grave it was reposed upon / The Pillow for my Head reprehend, v. [L. re- + prehendere, to seize.] To chide; to reprove; to censure; to rebuke. 1260 Of Heaven and Hell, I also yield / The right to reprehend. repreive, n. [see reprieve, n.] representative, adj. [Fr. représentatif or L. re- + præsentāre, to present.] To represent, to portray, to figure or to symbolize. 100/147 Stands representative in gold / Of Rose and Lily, manifold. repress (-ed), v. [L. re- + pressāre, to press.] To check; to restrain or hold back; to quell. 627/696 As if they just repressed / Some Secret – that was pushing. reprieve (repreive), n. [see reprieve, v.] (webplay: days, death, live, sentence, time).

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Deliverance from a death sentence, often temporary. 1500/1519 I gave him leave to live / Lest Gratitude revive the snake / Though smuggled his reprieve reprieve (-s), v. [Fr. re- + prendre, take.] (webplay: death). Give relief from to for a time; delay the execution of. 762/486 The Cat reprieves the Mouse … Just long enough for Hope to tease / Then mashes it to death. reprieving, verbal adj. [see reprieve, v.] Comforting; delivering; giving relief from discomfort. 1321/1336 When suing – like her Essex / For a reprieving Look reprimand, v. [Fr. réprimer, repress, reprove.] To reprove severely; to chide; to censure for a fault. 1601/1675 We reprimand the Happiness / That too competes with Heaven. reproduce (-d), v. [L. re-, again + prō, forward + dūcere, lead.] Copy; replicate; create a more or less exact image of; [fig.] paint; draw; render artistically. 307/549 He – Could reproduce the Sun / At period of going down. republic, n. [Fr. république or L. rēs, thing + publicus, public.] A community of persons or animals, etc. in which there is a certain equity among members. 1107/1147 Republic of Delight, I thought / Where each is Citizen. repudiate (-s), v. [L. repudiāre, divorce, reject.] Cast away, reject, discard. 641/707 For Ease of Gianture / Repudiates it, all the more.   repugnant, adj. [Fr. répugnant or L. re- + pugnāre, to fight.] Hostile; resisting; contrary; or inconsistent with. 1412/1437 When pushed upon a scene / Repugnant to her probity. repugnantly, adv. [see repugnant, adj.] In a contrary, contradictory or inconsistent manner. 1340/1377 Temptation is the Friend / Repugnantly resigned. repulse, n. [L. repulsa < re- + pellěre, to drive.] Refusal or denial. 1567/1623 Not saddened by repulse … / That somewhere, there exists, Supremacy. request, n. [OFr < L. quecerěre, seek, inquire.] A prayer, the expression of desire for something to be granted or done. 1606/1632 Crumbless and homeless, of but one request / The Birds she lost. request, v. [see request, n.] To ask for, to solicit, to express desire, to beg. 117/102 Smiling as they request an alms / At some imposing door! require (-d, -s, requiring), v. [OFr < L. re- + qucerěre, seek, ask.]