Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: pain – palliate
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pain (-'s), n. [ME < OFr peine < L. pœna penalty, punishment.] (webplay: animal, bodies, bowed, childbirth, death, difficult, displeasure, expect, fear, fly, friends, future, gain, grief, heart, inflicted, limb, lose, mind, parts, past, pressure, presume, prospect, service, sorrow, suffer, surgery, taking pains to rise, tired, trouble, uneasy, work).
- Trial; mental difficulty; emotional suffering; spiritual agony.
- Hurt; discomfort; physical suffering; bodily affliction.
- Work; labor; toil; exertion; effort.
- Grief; misery; sorrow; [fig.] mortality; life on earth; human experience.
- Offense; insult; pang of regret or sorrow.
- Ache; heartbreak; [fig.] vein.
paint (-ed, -s), v. [OFr peind-re.] (webplay: art, canvas, colors, eye, house, mind, picture, simple).
- Color; tint; cover with a bright hue.
- Draw; create; form; represent on canvas.
- Bring to life; brighten; animate; [fig.] affect; influence; impact.
- [Fig.] change from green to bright red and gold [as leaves in autumn.]
painter (-s), n. [see paint, v.] (webplay: art).
Artist; one skilled in drawing with colors on canvas.
pair (-s), n. [Fr. < L. pār, equal.] (webplay: endure, heaven, match, nerves, same, shoes, suited, throw, two).
- Set of two; matching duo; similar couple; grouping of two identical things which belong together.
- Both.
palace (-s), n. [OFr < L. palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome; the house of Augustus situated there; later applied to residences of the Caesars.] (webplay: king).
- Mansion; luxurious abode; royal dwelling place; majestic habitation; lavish residence.
- Celestial home; heavenly chamber.
- Riches; wealth; fortune; treasure; inheritance; legacy.
- [Fig.] coffin; grave; burial place.
palate (-s), n. [L. palatum.]
- Mouth; taste buds; physical sense of taste.
- Hunger; appetite; desire; craving.
- Taste; liking; preference.
pale (-r), adj. [ME < OFr < L. pallēre.] (webplay: red).
- Dull; dim; colorless; lacking brightness; plain; undesirable; bereft of beauty or glory in comparison.
- Appalled; frightened; alarmed; white; stricken colorless from fear or awe; [fig.] deathly; withered in appearance; ashen in color from illness and near approach of death.
pale, v. [see pale, adj.] (webplay: red).
Become dull; lose color; turn white; lose previously perceived beauty in comparison; become less interesting or attractive.
pall (-s), n. [OE pæll, pęll, costly cloak or robe, purple robe, purple; cloak or mantle. See purple. NW says related to “pale.”] (webplay: cool, cover, funerals, life, lose).
- Burial cloth; covering placed over the body of the deceased at a funeral; [word play] pale color of a corpse; bloodless appearance of the body after death.
- Royal robe; coronation vestment; ceremonial cloak of rich purple cloth; majestic mantle signifying high honor or status.
palliate, v. [Late L. palliare, to cloak.] (webplay: eased).
Ease the effect of; lessen the sting of; reduce the impact of.