Chapter X

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From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

having fair knowledge of

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

a farewell remark

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

later than; following

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

using the voice; not silently

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

in addition

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

make a request or demand for something to somebody

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

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From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

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From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

see with attention

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

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From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

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From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

in the space, time, or range separating two things

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

plural of “boy” — a youthful male person

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

possessive form of “brother” — a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

ruined by overcooking

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the particular occupation for which you are trained

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

anything that covers or conceals

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

(comparative of “near” or “close”) within a shorter distance

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

From this reading ✿ How long this severance and this coy shy flight?

wanted intensely

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

a female human offspring

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

although something is true; in spite of

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

plural of “drop” — a shape that is spherical and small

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

owed and payable immediately or on demand

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

moving toward the east

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

plural of “eyelid” — either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

past form of “fail” — fail to do something; leave something undone

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

inflected form of “flee” — run away quickly

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inflected form of “fly” — travel through the air; be airborne

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading ✿ How long this severance and this coy shy flight?

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

moving swiftly

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (“furthest” is used more often than “farthest” in this abstract sense)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

plural of “groan” — an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

past form of “happen” — come to pass

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the locus of feelings and intuitions

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

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From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

plural of “joy” — the emotion of great happiness

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

a polite name for any woman

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

plural of “land” — the land on which real estate is located

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

provided with artificial light

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

plural of “make” — a recognizable kind

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

a vaguely specified concern

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

on one occasion

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

plural of “one” — the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

not allowed to continue to bat or run

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

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From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the time that has elapsed

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

approval to do something

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

-ing form of “prolong” — lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

-ing form of “repair” — restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

a charge of ammunition for a single shot

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

an educational institution

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

plural of “shape” — any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

a garment worn on the upper half of the body

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

start suddenly, as from fright

From this reading ✿ How long this severance and this coy shy flight?

an instance of visual perception

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

a male human offspring

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

hurting

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

successive (without a break)

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

patient endurance especially of pain or distress

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

in or at that place or location

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inflected form of “tell” — express in words

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

a just detectable amount

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Then he rose at once and, repairing to the audience-hall, went straight to the King and told his tale and craved his permission[451] to travel eastward to the city of Bassorah and ask after his brother's son.

precisely as stated

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

past form of “wail” — emit long loud cries

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

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From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inflected form of “weep” — shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain

From this reading So the Lady of Beauty acquainted him with what happened between her son and the school boys; and he also wept, calling to mind his brother and what had past between them and what had betided his daughter and how he had failed to find out what mystery there was in the matter.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

at the time that

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

belonging to which person

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

in the company of; together with

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inflected form of “withdraw” — pull back or move away or backward

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

inside; before a period of time has passed

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"

an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

but in spite of that

From this reading Love in my heart they lit and went their ways, ✿ And all I love to furthest lands withdrew; And when they left me sufferance also left, ✿ And when we parted Patience bade adieu: They fled and flying with my joys they fled, ✿ In very constancy my spirit flew: They made my eyelids flow with severance tears ✿ And to the parting-pang these drops are due: And when I long to see reunion-day, ✿ My groans prolonging sore for ruth I sue: Then in my heart of hearts their shapes I trace, ✿ And love and longing care and cark renew: O ye, whose names cling round me like a cloak, ✿ Whose love yet closer than a shirt I drew, Belovèd ones! how long this hard despite?

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Then she wailed and shrieked aloud and her son did the like; and behold, in came the Wazir whose heart burnt within him at the sight of their lamentations and he said, "What makes you weep?"