Emily Dickinson Lexicon

visitor (-s, visiter, visiters), n. [AFr < OFr visiter, to visit.] (webplay: another, bring, come, day, divine, flowers, friend, go, grant, guest, house, judgments, know, law, lord, manner, men, move, physician, see, show, subject, superior, trouble, view, visit, wait).

1. Companion; comrade; associate; [fig.] expression; manifestation of emotion.
2. Guest; participant; one invited.
3. Stranger; alien; foreigner; outsider; newcomer; passer by; person who suddenly appears.
4. Neighbor; acquaintance; [fig.] mourner.
5. Dweller; lodger; resident; occupant; temporary resident; person living here temporarily; [fig.] creature in nature such as a bird; [metaphor] angel; heavenly messenger; spiritual being.