Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: boot – born
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boot (-s), n. [ME > OFr < L.] (webplay: foot, shoe).
- Hoof; animal foot.
- Tread; pace; stride; step in a funeral march; [fig.] load; weight; encumbrance; heavy burden.
- Footwear; high-top walking shoe; leather casing for feet; covering for the foot and lower leg; [fig.] progression; initiative; forward motion.
- Will to act; desire to serve.
- Claw; pincer; bird's lower extremity; bird appendage for perching.
- Root; underground fibrous system for a plant; [fig.] base; foundation.
booty, n. [ME 'advantage, profit'.] (webplay: dishonesty, plunder).
- Loot; spoils; pillage; treasure; stolen goods; property obtained by the use of force; [fig.] landscape; earth; horizon; (see Numbers 31:32).
- Loved ones; beloved dead; deceased people.
- Profit; gain; advantage; goodness; blessing; [word play] beauty.
boquet, n. [see bouquet, n.]
border, adj. [see border, n.] (webplay: cultivation).
- Remote; distant; farthest; skyline; outlying; faraway; on the edge; at the limit; near the horizon.
- Boundary; district between Scotland and England; area between the Tweed river and Hadrian's Wall; [fig.] no man's land; [see ballad, n.]
border, n. [ME > OFr > L. bordatura, edging > Germanic bord, side.]
Hem; edge; band; margin; perimeter; seam allowance; exterior section; [fig.] frame; background; (see Mark 6:56).
bore, v. [see bear, v.]
bore (-d), v. [OE borian; see also bear, v.] (webplay: worm).
Burrow; drill; pierce; eat; nibble; cut through; make a hole; [fig.] destroy.
borer, n. [bore + er.]
Worm; burrowing insect; [fig.] destroyer.
born, v. [phrasal v. “to be born”; see also bear, v.] (webplay: again, approach, blossom, days, date, eyes, feet, followed, gain, God, hand, head, keeper, last, life, long, love, man, mind, name, part, place, tell, time, think, wear).
- Hatched; brooded; incubated to emergence from an egg.
- Conceived; conceptualized; created; initiated; originated.
- Recreated; renewed; regenerated; resurrected; [fig.] baptized; hallowed; consecrated; redeemed; (see John 3:3-5).
- Engendered; bred; procreated; spawned; mothered; descended; sprung from; brought forth; carried until birth; [fig.] generated; brought into existence.
- Realized; actualized; recognized as being real; acknowledged to exist.
- Welcomed; received; accepted; feted; celebrated; greeted upon arrival; [fig.] published; released in print; issued to the public.
- Made to flower; caused to bloom; brought to life.
born, verbal adj. [see bear, v.] (webplay: days, divine, God, significations).
Created; debuted; unveiled; revealed; introduced; uncovered; brought to light; [fig.] betrothed; wed; married; [metaphor] blessed; sanctified; hallowed; brought into a covenant relationship; (see Isaiah 66:8).