Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ER
TRAN'QUIL-IZ-EDTRAN'QUIL-IZ-ING
TRAN'QUIL-IZ-ER, n.
A kind of chair, in which a raving maniac may be so fixed, as to be motionless. It is used for the production of tranquillity, in a paroxysm of raving.
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