Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Cigar
cigar, n. [Sp.]
Roll of tobacco; coiled leaves for smoking; stick that goes in a person's mouth while the outer end is lit for drawing in smoke; [fig.] branch; plant; tree that exudes sweet-smelling oxygen; [metaphor] poem; sheet of poetry; page of metrical verse.
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