Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PHRYG'I-AN, a. [from Phrygia, in Asia Minor.]

Pertaining to Phrygia; an epithet applied to a sprightly animating kind of music. – Arbuthnot. Phrygian stone, a stone described by the ancients, used in dyeing; a light spungy stone resembling a pumice, said to be drying and astringent. – Pliny. Dioscorides.