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
Additional info about word: VERSE
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. - 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; - 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. - 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)