Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Moccasin
moccasin, n. [Powhatan mockasin; Odjibwa makisin.]
Slipper; hand-made leather foot-gear; deerskin shoe of Native Americans, who travel swiftly on foot; [fig.] viper; water serpent; venomous North American snake whose strike posture reveals an open white mouth; [kenning “electric mocassin”] lightning strike.
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