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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Verse

Verse (verse)
n.(?)
Verse
[OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a line in writing, 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.
  1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

    * 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)

  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.


Verse

Verse (verse)
v. t.
Verse
  1. To tell in verse, or poetry.
    [Obs.]

    Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. Shak.


Verse

Verse (verse)
v. i.
Verse
  1. To make verses] to versify.
    [Obs.]

    It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. Sir P. Sidney.














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