Word Meanings - BALLADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

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• RECUR
  1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• THREE-MILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt of three miles included in territorial waters of a state.
• THREE-PILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• THREE-SIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• CONCLUDE
  1. To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate. A train of lies, That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries. Dryden. And, to conclude, The victory fell on us. Shak. 2. To form a final judgment; to reach a decision. Can
• THREE-PORT
  Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• REFRAINMENT
  Act of refraining.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• MELANCHOLINESS
  The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.