Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: famine – far
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famine, n. [Fr. < Late L.] (webplay: deprivation, drink, feel, land, life, starve, sufficient, thing, want).
Hunger; starvation; extreme dearth; scarcity; destitution; (see Genesis 12:10).
famish (-ing), v. [L. fames, hunger.] (webplay: starve).
Starve; be deprived; suffer from hunger; (see Proverbs 10:3).
famous, adj. [see fame, n.]
- Notable; celebrated; renowned; much talked about.
- Distinguished; prominent; praised; reputable.
fan, n. [OE.] (webplay: breath, cool, face, fire, thrown, wind, woman's).
- Wing; propeller.
- Bellows; instrument used to raise fire or flames.
- Means used to move air; beautiful decoration used by women.
fan, v. [Fr. vanner.]
Ventilate; winnow; blow; drive current of air.
fancy, n. [see fancy, v.]
- Daydream; mental images of pleasure.
- Thoughts; arbitrary notions.
fancy (fancied), v. [contraction of fantasy.] (webplay: Deserts, esteem, full, led, liked, open, True).
Imagine; suppose; conceive in the mind.
fantastic, adj. [Gk, make visible.] (webplay: person).
Unreal; incredible; mystical; exists only in imagination.
fantasy, n. [Fr. < Gk to make visible, to show.]
Dream; vision; illusion; delusive imagination.
far (farthest), adj. [OE.] (webplay: affection, country, Distant, go, heaven, justify, kingdom, man, nations, near, obedience, pass, perish, place, remote, separated, traveling, way, wide).
- Foreign; exotic; other-worldly; from another dimension.
- Late ; remote in time; long time away; near the end of.
- Distant; remote in place; geographically removed.
- Dusky; evening; bedtime; nighttime; after dark.
- Estranged; alienated; emotionally distant.
- Heavenly; celestial; paradisaical; immortal; far gone.