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This tag is for questions related to definitions and nuances of meaning of a word or phrase.
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What does 'bower' mean in this sentence from Walden?
Sadly, none of the dictionaries I consulted describes any meaning related to clothing. What does bower mean here? …
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Is "thinks I" in Melville's Moby-Dick used in the sense of "thought I"? [duplicate]
Methinks the phrase is used by Melville in the meaning of thought I. … What puts me in doubt, though, is the lack of definitions of such meaning in dictionaries and the lack of any discussion in the Web, e.g. at ESE. …
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What does 'compliment' mean in this quote of Melville?
What does compliment mean in the following passage from Moby-Dick:
I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up a …
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What does the verb bound mean in this sentence of Thoreau's? [closed]
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
When he was here, some years ago, he showed to a few a little manuscript book,—his “orderly book” I think he called it,—containing the names of his c …
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What does 'straggling' mean in "(...)you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry wit...
From the research I did, I would think that straggling in this sentence is an adjective that derives its meaning from the verb straggle:
to escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a …
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What do 'spile' and 'bung' mean in this sentence written by Thoreau?
I have looked spile and bung in a dictionary, yet their meaning remains unclear to me in this sentence. What do these words mean here? …
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What does 'made' mean in "In his case there is no idle eloquence, no made,[...]"?
I have done some research, yet the meaning of made in this
sentence remains unclear to me. Is it used here as a noun, meaning grub / maggot? …
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What does 'secure' mean in this sentence of Thoreau's?
In A Plea for Captain John Brown, Thoreau writes:
I have no respect for the penetration of any man who can read the report of that conversation,
and still call the principal in it insane. It has the …
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What does "for a mile" mean in this sentence of Thoreau?
In Slavery in Massachusetts, Thoreau writes:
But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water-lily,
and a season I had waited for had arrived. It is the emblem of purity.
It bursts up so pur …
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What does Thoreau mean by "horizontal body" in this paragraph from "The Last Days of John Br... [closed]
In The Last Days of John Brown, Thoreau writes:
“He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, Nor called the gods with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right; But bowed his comely …
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What do 'fain' and 'unfained' mean in this paragraph from Milton's "The Doctrine & Disciplin...
I tried to decode the meaning of fain and unfained in Milton's writing but to no avail. Are these just alternative spellings of fine (meaning to diminish) and unfined? …
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What is meant by "the crotchet of the law" in chapter VIII of Milton's "The Doctrine & Disci...
In book one, chapter VIII, of The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, it is written:
Upon these principles I answer, that a right beleever ought to divorce an idolatrous heretick unlesse upon better ho …
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What does "get on" mean in this sentence from Walden?
In the first chapter of Walden, Thoreau writes:
I cannot but perceive
that this so-called rich and refined life is a thing jumped at, and I do not get on
in the enjoyment of the fine arts which adorn …
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What does "The by-gone-day proclaym'd" mean in scene ii, act I of The Winter's Tale?
In the second scene of The Winter's Tale, Hermione says:
I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill
You had drawne Oathes from him, not to stay: you (Sir)
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you …
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"in the Hebrew it ..." vs "in Hebrew it ..." - what is the difference of meaning in this par...
If the wording is not incorrect, what is the difference in meaning between in the Hebrew it sounds vs in Hebrew it sounds? …
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