Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHANGE, n.

1. Any variation or alteration in form, state, quality, or essence; or a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
2. A succession of one thing in the place of another; vicissitude; as, a change of seasons; a change of objects on a journey; a change of scenes.
3. A revolution; as, a change of government.
4. A passing by the sun, and the beginning of a new monthly revolution; as, a change of the moon.
5. A different state by removal; novelty; variety. Our fathers did, for change, to France repair. – Dryden.
6. Alteration in the order of ringing bells; variety of sounds. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. – Holder.
7. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another. Thirty changes of raiment. – Judges xiv.
8. Small coins of money, which may be given for larger pieces.
9. The balance of money paid beyond the price of goods purchased; as, I gave the clerk a bank note for his cloth, and he gave me the change.
10. The dissolution of the body; death. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. – Job xiv.
11. Change for exchange, a place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for merchantile transactions.
12. In arithmetic, permutation; variation of numbers. Thirteen numbers admit of 6,227,020,800 changes, or different positions.