Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: easy – echoed
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easy (easier), adv. [see easily, adv. and easy, adj.]
- Readily; without as much pain.
- Deftly; effortlessly; with facility.
- Lightly; gently; not heavily.
- Likely; probably.
- Phrase. “Easy on”: Adrift; afloat; buoyantly forward.
eat (-s, ate), v. [OE ate.] (webplay: die, food, men, words).
- Consume; ingest; take in food for bodily nourishment.
- Dissolve; corrode; wear away; break off.
- [Merism: “ate and drank”] partake; devour; absorb as knowledge.
eaves, n. [OE efes, porch.] (webplay: falls, roof, windows).
- Overhang; edge of a roof; structure on a building which casts rain off the roof.
- Sloping surface; [fig.] cheeks of a face; [see Shakespeare's Tempest 5.1.17 “His tears run downe his beard like winter drops From eaves of reeds.”]
ebb (-s, -ed), v. [OE a-ebbian, to strand a ship.] (webplay: opposed).
Wane; recede; withdraw; flow out; move away, like the retreat of the ocean tide; [fig.] vanish in death; disappear by dying.
ebbing, verbal adj. [see ebb, v.] (webplay: flow).
Returning; turning; [fig.] changing.
ebon, adj. [L. hebenus < Heb. hōbhn, hard.] (webplay: tawny).
Black; color of ebony; made of the hard black wood from the East; [fig.] death.
eccentric, adj. [Gk εκκετ ρος, out of center.]
Off-center; odd; untraditional.
eccentricity (-ies), n. [see eccentric, adj.] (webplay: common).
The state of being odd or uncommon.
echo (-es), n. [L. < Gk 'sound'.]
Reflected sounds.
echoed, v. [see echo, n.]
Resounded.