Emily Dickinson Lexicon

peace, n. [ME pais < OFr pais.] (webplay: death, die, earth, heaven, interruption, life, neighbors, peace-parted, press, riots, rural, sacrifice, scenes, slept, speak, suppress, thoughts, troubled).

1. Tranquility; freedom from pain; absence of suffering; serenity of mind.
2. Silence; stillness; quiet.
3. Bliss; ecstasy; rapture; supreme joy.
4. Absence of war.
5. Freedom from regret; absence of remorse.
6. Calm weather; quiet period after a storm.
7. [Fig.] eternal rest.
8. [Fig.] immortality; resurrection; life after death.
9. [Fig.] death.