Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: founder – fracture
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founder (-ing, -ed, -s), v. [Fr.] (webplay: fall, ruinous).
Sink; capsize; collapse; [fig.] lose control, direction, or power.
fountain, n. [L.]
Source; origin.
four, adj. [OE.]
Two plus two in number; one and three others.
four, n. [OE.]
Two pairs of sailors; one and three other people.
fourscore, adj. [see score, n.]
Eighty; four times twenty years.
fourth, adj. [OE.]
Next after the third.
fox, n. [OE.]
Wild animal of the dog family.
foxglove (-'s), n. [OE foxes glofa.]
Common flowering plant.
fraction (-s), n. [L. fractus, break.] (webplay: part, whole).
- Very small part.
- Part as distinct from the whole.
fracture, n. [L.] (webplay: break).
- Break; crack.
- Appearance of being broken.