Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: ease – easy
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ease (-s, -d, easing), v. [see ease, n.] (webplay: away, care, free, gradually, seamen's, somewhat).
- Comfort; soothe; reduce the pain of.
- Alleviate; palliate; [ablative sense] relieve of; try to remove.
easel, n. [Du. 'ass'.]
Support; drawing board; structure for holding a canvas that an artist is working on; [fig.] horizon; meadow land; evening sky at sunset.
easily, adv. [see easy, adj. and easy, adv.] (webplay: Without).
Effortlessly; without difficulty; without great labor; lacking exertion or sacrifice.
east, adj. [see East India, proper n.]
east, adv. [see east, n.] (webplay: hand).
- In the direction; coming from the place; coming from the compass direction.
- Phrase. “A little East of Jordan”: somewhere in Canaan; at a place in the land that the Lord promised to Jacob in the Bible (see Genesis 32:24-30).
east, n. [OE 'dawn'; 'back, behind'.] (webplay: border, four, gold, heavens, kings, lie, sun, west, wind).
- Direction where the sun rises; place where the sun appears.
- Direction from whence the Messiah will come.
- One of the four compass points; orientation that references where the equator intersects the horizon.
- Sun; dawn; sunrise.
- Orient; lands of Asia and Asia Minor such as Persia, India, and China.
Easter, proper n. [OE < Eostre, Germanic dawn goddess.]
Christian holiday; Holy Sunday; morning of Christ's resurrection from the dead; springtime commemoration of the atonement of Jesus Christ; [fig.] time of rebirth; ancient renewal festival at the vernal equinox; [see ED's letters.]
eastern, adj. [see east, n.] (webplay: India, kings, sun).
- Exotic; oriental; pertaining to lands such as India, Asia Minor, and so forth.
- Dawning; early morning; pertaining to the sunrise.
East India, proper n. [see Indies, proper n.]
Shortened form of British East India Company; ruling government in most of nineteenth-century India; [fig.] colorful treasures; riches of spice, perfume, and gold.
easy (easier, easiest), adj. [OFr.] (webplay: care, causing, complying, contented, dancing, difficulty, expense, free, gently, Giving, great, hilly, Knowledge, laugh, life, men, opposition, pain, pass, patient, requires, rest, rising, road, sacrifice, sail, slept, small, softness, soon, stiffness, tranquillity, understandeth, uneven, well, without, yieldeth).
- Simple; basic; natural; uncomplicated.
- Bearable; endurable; sufferable; tolerable.
- Susceptible.
- Lesser; subordinate.
- Nearby; accessible; within reach.
- Quiet; serene; tranquil; unburdened; [fig.] free from death.
- Transparent; apparent; evident; clear; plain; decipherable; readable.
- Not difficult; giving no great labor; requiring little exertion; presenting no great obstacles.
- Light; slight; small; not heavy; not burdensome; [fig.] less sorrowful.
- Normal; common; ordinary.
- Carefree; comfortable.
- Gentle; soft; mild; balmy; flowing; halcyon; moderate; temperate; not forceful.
- Agreeable; congenial; amenable; submissive; compliant; obliging; not unwilling; yielding with little resistance.
- Safe; not dangerous.
- Not far; short in distance; not difficult to travel.