Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: pleader – pledge
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pleader, n. [ME playdur < OFr; see plead.]
Sophist; specious reasoner; deceptively persuasive orator.
pleading, n. [see plead, v.]
Entreaty; supplication; urgent call; [fig.] plaintive song; poignant sounds of birds and insects.
pleading, verbal adj. [see plead, v.] (webplay: press).
Poignant; plaintive; [fig.] funereal; grieving; lamenting; mournful; sorrowful.
pleasant (-er), adj. [ME < OFr pleisant < plaisir, to please.] (webplay: ceased, content, eye, God, like, love, meet, mind, opposed, person, please God, sailing, saying, tranquilized).
- Agreeable; nice; good; desirable; enjoyable; satisfactory
- Cloudless; calm; characterized by fair weather.
please, n. [see please, v.] (webplay: saying, skillful).
Petition; prayer; appeal; entreaty; humble request; meek plea.
please (-d, -s), v. [ME plaise < L. placēre, to be pleasing or agreeable.] (webplay: choose, condescend, content, dull, dwell, eye, friend, gay, good, grace, heart's desire, joy, landscape, like, lords, meet, men-pleasers, please God, sailing, saying, show, sight, sounds, taste, view, worldly).
- Satisfy; content; interest; delight; make happy.
- Allow; grant; permit; make possible.
- Deign; condescend.
- Have mercy; show compassion.
- Desire; want; like; choose; prefer.
- Suit, be appropriate (for); be fitting (for).
- Excite; [fig.] ripple; agitate; disturb.
pleased, verbal adj. [see please, v.] (webplay: bodily, company, friend, heart's desire, joy, manners, pain, satisfy, saying, sounds, whole, worldly).
- Delighted; happy; gladdened; elated.
- Desirous; anxious; eager.
pleasing, adj. [see please, v.] (webplay: sprightly, tranquilized).
Agreeable; cheerful; delightful; happy; jubilant; animated.
pleasure (-s), n. [ME plesir < OFr < L. placēre, to please.] (webplay: bodily, company, content, dwell, expectation, eye, gaining, gay, good, grace, heart's desire, joy, liberty, light, meet, men-pleasers, merriment, mind, please God, saying, shapes, show, sight, will, words).
- Delight; joy; enjoyment; happiness; elation; bliss; cheer; satisfaction; contentment.
- Will; desire; whim.
- Sport; recreation; diversion; amusement; hobby; leisure activity.
- [Fig.] lava; eruption.
- [Fig.] shining; brightness.
pledge, n. [Late ME < OFr < L. plivium < plevīre, warrant, assure, undertake for, engage.] (webplay: plight, surety).
Property; pawn; object given to a creditor to insure repayment of a debt; [fig.] life; mortal existence; right to take away life given to Death for the loan of time.