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Word Meanings - VERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise, Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert, 1. A line consisting of a certain number

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and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise, Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert, 1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules. Note: Verses are of various kinds, as hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, etc., according to the number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is called an Alexandrine. Two or more verses form a stanza or strophe. 2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne. 3. A short division of any composition. Specifically: -- A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses. Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is objectionable, because not always distinguishable from the stricter use in the sense of a line. One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments. Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was divided into verses by Robert Stephens , a French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. 4. A piece of poetry. "This verse be thine." Pope. Blank verse, poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes. -- Heroic verse. See under Heroic.

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  • VERSET
    A verse. Milton.
  • VERSEMAN
    See PRIOR
  • LENGTHEN
    To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
  • CONTINUITY
    the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • LENGTHFUL
    Long. Pope.
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • METHOD
    Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
  • LENGTHINESS
    The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
  • THREAD
    wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
  • SUCCESSION
    1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
  • THREADFISH
    The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
  • METHODIZE
    To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
  • METHODIC; METHODICAL
    1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
  • METHODIOS
    The art and principles of method.
  • THREADER
    1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
  • THREADFIN
    Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
  • LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
    In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
  • METHODIST
    One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • 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.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • AVERSENESS
    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • RENVERSEMENT
    A reversing.
  • DISCONTINUITY
    Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
  • TRAVERSE
    Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
  • INTERTRANSVERSE
    Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
  • DOUBLETHREADED
    Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
  • ALENGTH
    At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
  • UNIVERSE
    All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation. How may I Adore thee, Author of this universe And all this good to man! Milton. (more info)

 

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