one attempts to identify which attested category of usage fits best. If contextual factors demand it, one might propose a unique category. (The latter often happens when usage of a word is relatively limited.) Granted, an author will sometimes employ double entendre, a rhetorical device in which two semantic nuances of a word operate simultaneously. (See our discussion of this literary technique below.) But this rhetorical technique is relatively rare. When determining the meaning of a word in a