Emily Dickinson Lexicon

late (-r, -st), adj. [OE læt.] (webplay: after, coming, day, delay, depart, end, far, happening, hour, Italy, last, leaps, lie, life, long, ministry, near, night, period, place, rains, round, see, slow, summer, tardy, time, toward).

1. Delayed; tardy; slow; after the appointed hour; following the necessary time.
2. Gone; lost; disappeared; former; decayed; departed.
3. After dark; at night.
4. Most recent.
5. Last; after all the others; final in a sequence.
6. Too advanced; too far gone; too much after the present; too far along in time.
7. More lasting; more enduring.