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ing off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.

To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. -- v. i.

To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person. [Poetic]

A cincture. [Poetic] The vast encincture of that gloomy sea. Wordsworth.

powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to ent…

Inspiring envy. [Obs. or Poetic] He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away. Spenser.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

they beheld transfigured and in a glorious epiphany upon the mount. Jer. Taylor. An epic poet, if ever such a difficult birth should make its epiphany in Paris. De Quincey.

An epic poem; epic poetry.

Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry. Stormonth.

The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.

Before; sooner than. [Archaic or Poetic] Myself was stirring ere the break of day. Shak. Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore. Dryden. Sir, come down ere my child die. John iv. 49.

An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.

Eternal. [Poetic] Shak. Built up to eterne significance. Mrs. Browning.

bes believed the eternal truths which he opposed. Dryden. What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times M. Arnold.

Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.

Evening. See Eve, n. 1. [Poetic.] Shak.