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To vomit. These verses . . . make me ready to cast. B. Jonson.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

One versed in cetology.

around the sides and top of a door, window, or fireplace. The top piece is called the traverse and the side pieces the ascendants.

r exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse. [Obs.] Dryden.

To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

e acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species.

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

. being accounted a clerk." Blackstone. He was no great clerk, but he was perfectly well versed in the interests of Europe. Burke.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.