Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for E-LAPSE'
E-LAPSE', v.i. [elaps'; L. elapsus, from elabor, labor, to slide.]
To slide away; to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as, time; applied chiefly or wholly to time. [Instead of elapse, the noun, we use lapse.]
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