Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: hope – horse
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hope (-d, -ing), v. [OE hopian.] (webplay: confidence, expectation, good, obtaining).
- Wish; dream; aspire; desire obtainable good.
- Guess; desire; wish for.
- Expectation to obtain; confidence in the possibility of a future event
- Expectation of release.
- Await; expect; look for.
hopeless, adj. [see hope, n.] (webplay: good, nothing, without).
- Destitute; despairing; despondent.
- Unattainable; impossible to accomplish.
hopeless (-ly), adv. [see hope, n.]
Desperately; despondently.
hopper, n. [see hop, v.] (webplay: mill).
Receiver like an inverted cone, through which grain passes into a mill.
horizon (-s), n. [Gk 'bind or limit'.] (webplay: eye, sight, sun, western).
Skyline; line that terminates the view, when extended on the surface of the earth; [fig.] ceiling.
horizontal, adj. [OFr < L. < Gk. 'bounding circle'.]
Level; parallel to the horizon.
horn (-s), n. [OE < Germanic.] (webplay: state).
Spike; hard pointed projection.
horrid, adj. [L. horridus, bristling, rough, savage.] (webplay: enormity).
Hideous; shocking; dreadful.
horror (-'s), n. [OFr < L. 'shudder'.] (webplay: cold, fear, law, shuddering, terror).
Dreadful thoughts; excessive degree of fear or terror; intense feelings of hatred and detestation.
horse (-s, -'s), n. [OE hors < Germanic.] (webplay: ride, sea).
Beautiful species of quadruped.