Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LOST, pp. [from lose.]

1. Mislaid or left in a place unknown or forgotten; that can not be found; as, a lost book.
2. Ruined; destroyed; wasted or squandered; employed to no good purpose; as, lost money; lost time.
3. Forfeited; as, a lost estate.
4. Not able to find the right way, or the place intended. A stranger is lost in London or Paris.
5. Bewildered; perplexed; being in a maze; as, a speaker may be lost in his argument.
6. Alienated; insensible; hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; as, a profligate lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
7. Not perceptible to the senses; nut visible; as, an Lib lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
8. Shipwrecked or foundered; sunk or destroyed; as, I ship hat at sea, or on the rocks.