Emily Dickinson Lexicon

dead, n. [see dead, verbal adj.] (webplay: away, being, breast, caught, danger, depart, divine, drops, eternal, eye, faith, fire, floor, frost, gates, given, God, grace, hands, head, heart, hour, hunger, land, life, livest, lose, love, men, motion, motionless, name, nature, night, nothing, peaceful, perish, pleasures, quiet, restored, rising, secret, seeds, senses, separation, sleep, stone, suffer, tasteless, time, tree, truth, vacant, walls, warmth, weight, wind, words).

1. People who have died; those who have gone on from this life to the next; (see 1 Corinthians 15:42).
2. Departed souls; deceased ones; people who have passed away.