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A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence. (more info) forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of 1. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical

Additional info about word: PROSE

A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence. (more info) forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of 1. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order. Coleridge. 2. Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.

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• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• INTRODUCTOR
  An introducer.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• METERGRAM
  A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
• FORWARD
  1. Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet. 2. Ready; prompt; strongly inclined; in an ill sense, overready; to hasty. Only they would that we should remember the poor;
• 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 . . .
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• METERAGE
  The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
• LANGUAGE
  To communicate by language; to express in language. Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense. Fuller.
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• METER; METRE
  1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• VACUOMETER
  An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• PNEOMETER
  A spirometer.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• AUXOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
• ALGOMETER
  An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• ATMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• AZOTOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
• HODOMETER
  See ODOMETER
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.