Emily Dickinson Lexicon

sense (-s), n. [Fr. < L. 'perception, feeling'.] (webplay: discern, feel, hearing, instinct, meaning, mind, reason, tasting).

1. Reason; mind; mental stability; ability to feel; faculties of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and so forth.
2. Sanity; lucidity; order; rationality; [fig.] insight; inspiration.
3. Significance; meaning; intimation; definition; [word play] sensory perception from the physical world.
4. One's body; physical being; perception of the material world.
5. Being; consciousness; identity.