Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: trade – train
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trade (-s), n. [MLG trade.] (webplay: commerce).
- Commerce; exchange of commodities; business of bartering.
- Business; occupation; employment; profession.
- Custom; habit; occupation.
- Traffic; profit; bartering; business deal; commercial matter; money-handling; [fig.] worldliness; that which is profane.
tradition (-s, -'s), n. [OFr tradicion, delivery, surrender, handing down, instruction, doctrine.] (webplay: word).
- Custom; practice passed through generations; proper mode of behavior; correct way of being.
- Legend; fairy tale; story passed down through generations.
- Entity of long ago; something remembered only through legends; thing which no longer exists.
- Folk wisdom.
traffic, n. [Fr. trafique.] (webplay: merchantmen).
Commerce; trade; exchange of goods.
trafficking, verbal adj. [see traffic, n.]
Commercial; trading; bartering; exchange.
tragedy, n. [OFr tragedie.] (webplay: action, dramatic, human, lives).
- Drama; dramatic performance involving a catastrophic event; [fig.] fatality; death of a protagonist.
- Misfortune; mournful event; adverse condition.
tragic, adj. [L.]
Sad; sorrowful; dreadful; fatal; ironic.
trail (-ed), v. [OE trægelian.] (webplay: draw along, lower).
Drag; draw across the ground.
trailing, adj. [see trail, v.] (webplay: walk).
Following; drawn behind.
train (-s), n. [Fr. traîne.] (webplay: depart, instruction, note, strategem, taught).
- Streamer; flag; banner drawn behind.
- Tail; something drawn behind.
- Length; great distance.
- Series; procession; retinue.
- Locomotive; means of transportation; procession of railroad cars pulled by an engine.
- Funeral procession.
train (-ed), v. [ME traîn-er.]
Teach; develop through discipline and practice.