Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON'SORT, n. [L. consors; con and sors, sort, state, kind.]

1. A companion; a partner; an intimate associate; particularly, a partner of the bed; a wife or husband. He single chose to live, and shunn'd to wed, / Well pleased to want a consort of his bed. – Dryden.
2. An assembly or association of persons, convened for consultation. – Spenser.
3. Union; conjunction; concurrence. – Atterbury.
4. A number of instruments played together; a symphony; a concert. In this sense concert is now used.
5. In navigation, any vessel keeping company with another. Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regent, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the widow of a king.