Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: garment – gate
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garment (-s), n. [OFr guarniment.]
- Clothes; apparel; raiment.
- Robe; tunic; vestment; investiture; article of clothing; [fig.] body; physical tabernacle.
- Covering; protection; [fig.] skin; pelt; hide; [irony] nakedness; exposure; vulnerability.
garner, n. [Fr. grenier.]
Granary; barn; storehouse; building where grain is kept; [fig.] anthology of verses; collection of poems.
garnet, adj. [see garnet, n.]
Phrase. “Garnet Tooth”: red flame; scarlet blast; [kenning] fiery volcanic eruption; glowing stream of lava.
garnet, n. [OFr. < L. granum, pomegranate.]
Crystal; precious stone for the month of January; red mineral occurring in rhomboidal shapes; [fig.] token of love; jewel in a ring; gem given for a wedding anniversary; [metaphor] blood; life force; atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
garret, n. [OFr.]
- Chamber; apartment; flat; upstairs room with a writing table by a window; [fig.] life; mortal sphere.
- Upstairs room; open space on the top floor of a house.
- Loft; attic; storage place; crawl space under the roof of a house; [fig.] secret chamber; hiding place.
garrison (-ed), v. [OFr 'defense, safety, provision, store'.]
Hide; disguise.
garter, n. [OFr jarretier, bend of the knee, lower part of the leg.]
Leg band; flexible circle of knitted strands used to hold up one's stockings on the legs; [homonym] medallion; decoration; ornament of honor; badge for an order of knighthood; [fig.] sunset; colorful sunlit cloud; disk of the setting sun.
gash, n. [etymology unknown.]
Wound; ragged incision; cut in the skin.
gasp (-ed, -ing), v. [ON. geispa, gaspa, to yawn, idle talk.]
- Exclaim; speak out forcefully; cry for help with a sudden intake of air.
- Catch one's breath; inhale or exhale suddenly; breathe in and out convulsively because of shock.
gate (-s), n. [OE.]
- Death; end of mortality; beginning of the next life.
- Portal; passage into a city with guards that permit or deny access; [fig.] entryway into heaven.
- Opening in a fence; point of access through a wall.
- Ordinance; initiation; rite of passage; required procedure for entering a kingdom; [fig.] baptism; conversion; spiritual rebirth (see Matthew 7:14).
- Barrier; constraint; [fig.] physical body; mortal life; veil of corporeality.
- Door; passage; entry.
- Cenotaph; doorway into a sepulcher; entrance into a tomb.
- Wound; problem.
- Portal between life and death.
- Blockage; impediment.
- Veil; life before; pre-existence.