Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E,

Race; gallop; accelerate; move speedily; [fig.] compete; win; vie to determine the fastest one. 166/183 If I must tell you, of a Horse … not at all disposed to run!

E,

Sovereign; official; authoritative; pertaining to a head of state. 528/411 Mine – by the Royal seal!

E,

Erect; build; construct; establish. 892/1069 Who occupies this House … Where not so much as Honest Dog / Approach encourages … newly raised this Afternoon

E,

Importance; distinction; status; prestige; dignity; royalty; nobility; high position in the social hierarchy; [fig.] privilege; entitlement; rights resulting from an exalted social station. 373/575 I loop my apron … With bright Pins … That not too plain – / Rank – overtake me … singing – rather high

E, [Fig.]

time; hour; moment; state of existence; period of life. 1416/1365 Inquire of the proudest Rose / Which rapture – she preferred / And she would tell you sighing – / The transport of the Bud

E,

Phrase. “Rather than”: instead of; better than; more preferably than. 368/410 tossing – wild through the sea – / Rather than a mooring – unshared by thee. ratify (ratified), v. [Fr. ratifier < L. ratificāre; see rate, n.] (webplay: daily, purchase, wheat).

E,

Extend; spread; range. 311/291 It reaches to the Fence – / It wraps it Rail by Rail / Till it is lost in Fleeces read (-s), v. [OE rædan < Germanic, probably related to OIr im-rádim, deliberate, consider.] (webplay: advancing, book, criticism, death, God, history, king, knowledge, learning, letter, music, names, peruse, prayers, printed, say, sentence, sounds, suited, tell, understand).

E, [Fig.]

Heaven; mansion on high; place in the Kingdom of God. 1401/1436 To own a Susan of my own / Is of itself a Bliss – / Whatever Realm I forfeit, Lord, / Continue me in this!

E, [Fig.]

reward; compensate. 616/454 I met him … I told him Worlds I knew / Where Emperors grew – / Who recollected us / If we were true recollecting, n. [see recollect, v.] (webplay: gather, remembrance). Memory; remembrance; act of recalling to mind; retention in memory; failure to forget. 33/9 if remembering were forgetting – / Then I remember not! / And if forgetting – recollecting – / How near I had forgot! recollection (-'s), n. [see recollect, v.] (webplay: before).

E,

Blushing; flushed; [fig.] embarrassed; sheepish; ashamed. 1320/1320 Dear March – Come in … Put down your Hat – / You must have walked … The Maples never knew that you were coming … how Red their Faces grew

E,

Stay; continue to be; persist; continue without change; to still be. 804/860

E,

Brought to memory; given recognition; brought to recollection; brought to mind from the past. remembering, n. [see remember, v.] (webplay: consciousness, Creator, forgetting, forgot, lest, recollect).

E, [Fig.]

rising; coming forth. 667/787 Whose, be this renown, or fading / Witness, is not here renown (-ed), v. [see renown, n.] (webplay: great, name). Esteem; honor; exalt; make well-known; put in an eminent position; cause to be revered, praised, and venerated. 293/292 I go so I could hear his name … dimly recollect a Grace – / I think, they called it “God” – / Renowned to ease Extremity … Misery … too great renowned, adj. [see renown, n.]

E,

Assuming or claiming some honor owed. 1388/1393 Those Cattle smaller than a Bee / That herd upon the eye … Reserving the presumption / To suddenly descend

E,

Phrase. “At rest”: Motionless in death. 360/640 Death sets a Thing significant / … The stitches stopped themselves / And then 'twas put among the Dust / … A Book I have – a friend gave / Whose Pencil – here and there / Had notched the place that please him / At Rest – His fingers are / Now – when I read – I read not / For interrupting Tears / Obliterate the Etchings

E,

Come again soon; reappear at a predictable time. 149/159 Not like the Dew, did she return / At the Accustomed hour!

E,

Downfall; failure; loss of reputation; [fig.] death; tragic end. 961/821 Ermine – not to Me / Half the Condition, thy Reverse – to follow reverse (-d, -s), v. [Fr. < L. re- + versāre < vertěre, to turn.] (webplay: back, each, eternity, just, misfortune, obtains, other, poverty, reduced, strange).

E,

Send another way; cause to move in the opposite direction. 759/480 His Comrades, shifted like the Flakes / When Gusts reverse the Snow

E,

Puzzle; ambiguous statement; something to be solved by conjecture. 1222/1180 The Riddle we can guess / We speedily despise riddle, n². [OE hriddel < hrider, to shake.] Sieve; screen; mesh; filter; instrument for straining out impurities; [word play] enigma; paradox; conundrum. 501/373 through a Riddle, at the last – / Sagacity, must go riddle, v. [Late OE hriddel < hrider, to shake.] Perforate; pierce. 1319v/1379v If News have any Heart … ['Twill riddle like a shot] ride, n. [see ride, v.] Conveyance; journey by vehicle. 1463/1489 An easy Morning's Ride ride (riding, rode, -s), v. [OE rídan, travel.] (webplay: chariot, ease, horseback, supported).

E,

Jewelry for the ear. 498/368 The Ear Rings of Pizarro

E,

Head upward. 1134/1152 again the smoke from dwellings rose rising, verbal adj. [see rise, v.] Ascending; climbing; waxing. 1349/1366 I'd rather recollect a Setting / Than own a rising Sun rising, n. [see rise, v.] risk (-s), n. [Fr. risque.] Chance; gamble; hazard; danger; adventure; jeopardy. 393/560 A few - and they by Risk - procure risk, v. [Fr. risquer < older It. riscare < risco, risk.] Chance; gamble; submit to danger. 1582/1610 What Heart would risk the way ritardando, v. [It. pr. pple. of ritardare, to slow down.] Linger; stay behind; gradual reduction in speed. 1003/1003 Hold me till the Octave's run! / Quick! Burst the Windows! / Ritardando! rite (-s), n. [L. rītus, ceremony.] Ritual; religious ceremony; solemn service; act of tradition or custom. 1077/1106 These are the rites of Nature's House ritual, n. [L. rītus, rite.] Rite; ceremony; prescribed order or performing religious service.Rite; ceremony; prescribed order; religious service; [lit.] liturgy; bible; book containing religious rites; [fig.] vow; contract; agreement; covenant; [metaphor] script; dialogue; conversation. 388/671 the Churches are so frequent – / the ritual – so small rival, adj. [L. rivāl-is, one living on the opposite bank of a stream from another < rivus, stream.] Competing; pursuing the same object as another. 116/101 Till recently a rival claim / Disturbed these amities. river (-s), n. [OFr rivere, pop. L. ripāria < ripa, bank.] Large stream; flowing body of water. 1688/1728 The Rivers lean to see rivet (-s), n. [OFr rivet < river, to fix, clinch.] Fastener; bolt or nail driven through a material that cannot be removed. 187/238 Try - can you stir the awful rivet road (-s), n. [OE rád < pret. stem of rídan, to ride.] Public path; way of coming and going. 14/5 one came the road that I came roam (-ing, -s), v. [origin obscure.] Wander; meander; drift; rove; stray. 754/764 And now We roam in Sovreign Woods roar, n. [see roar, v.] Clamor; outcry; a loud, sustained sound. 1419/1442 Houses vanished with a roar roar, v. [OE rárian, prob. of imitative origin.] Bellow; make a loud, sustained noise. 4/3 Knowest thou the shore / Where no breakers roar roaring, n. [see roar, v.] Clamoring; shouting; cacophony; making a loud noise. 1558/1588 a Brook that seemed a Sea / Withheld us by it's roaring roast (-ed), v. [OFr rostir < rôst, gridiron, grill.] Burn; heat violently. 1387/1395 The Butterfly's Numidian Gown / With spots of Burnish – roasted on / Is proof against the Sun rob (-bed, -s), v. [OFr rober < Germ. roub-, reave.]

E,

Unoccupied opportunities. 382/644 The Things that Death will buy / Are Room “

E, [Fig.]

Structure [such as a body or a house.] 994/806 The Rose is an Estate – / In Sicily.

E,

the second vowel and the fifth letter of the English alphabet, seems to be the ancient Phenician and Hebrew › inverted, corresponding nearly with the Chaldaic and later Hebrew ה. Its long and natural sound in English coincides with the sound of i in the Italian and French languages, and is formed by a narrower opening of the glottis than that of a. It has a long sound, as in here, mere, me; a short sound, as in met, men; and the sound of a open or long, in there, prey, vein. As a final letter, it is generally quiescent; but it serves to lengthen the sound of the preceding vowel, or at least to indicate that the preceding vowel is to have its long sound, as in mane, cane, plume, which, without the final e, would be pronounced man, can, plum. After c and g, the final e serves to indicate that c is to be pronounced as s, and g as j. Thus without the final e, in mace [mase,] this word would be pronounced mac [mak,] and rage [raj] would be pronounced rag. In a numerous class of words, indeed in almost every word, except a few from the Greek, the final e is silent, serving no purpose whatever, unless to show from what language we have received the words, and in many cases, it does not answer this purpose. In words ending in ive, as active; in ile, as futile; in ine, as in sanguine, examine; in ite, as in definite; e is, for the most part, silent. In some of these words, the use of e is borrowed from the French; in most or all cases, it is not authorized by the Latin originals; it is worse than useless, as it leads to a wrong pronunciation; and the retaining of it in such words is, beyond measure, absurd. When two of this vowel occur together, the sound is the same as that of the single e long, as in deem, esteem, need; and it occurs often with a and i, as in mean, hear, siege, deceive, in which cases, when one vowel only has a sound, the combination I call a digraph [double written.] In these combinations, the sound is usually that of e long, but sometimes the short sound of e, as in lĕad, a metal, rĕad, pret. of rēad, and sometimes the sound of a long, as in reign, feign, pronounced rane, fane. Irregularities of this kind are not reducible to rules. As a numeral, E stands for 250. In the calendar, it is the fifth of the dominical letters. As an abbreviation, it stands for East, as in charts; E. by S., East by South.

EACH, a. [Scot. eik. This word is either a contraction of the Sax. ælc, elc, D. elk, or the Ir. ceach, or gach, Basque gucia, Fr. chaque, with the loss of the first articulation. With the Celtic corresponds the Russ. kajdei, each. I am inclined to believe both the English and Scottish words to be contractions of the Celtic ceach.]

Every one of any number separately considered or treated. The emperor distributed to each soldier in his army a liberal donative. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment. Gen. xlv. And the princes of Israel, being twelve men, each one was for the house of his fathers. Numb. i. Simeon and Levi took each man his sword. Gen. xxxiv. To each corresponds other. Let each esteem other better than himself. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty to assist, each to assist the other.