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One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

One versed in helminthology.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

en in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

According to the principles of interpretation; as, a verse of Scripture was examined hermeneutically.

ed.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.

One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he…

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

A poem consisting of six verses or lines.

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

One versed in, or whostudies, hierology.

One versed in histology.

One versed or well informed in history. Great captains should be good historians. South.

One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them. And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races. Lowell.

y or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded. Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. Pope. To ease themselves . . . by hitching into another place. Fuller.

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

taining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

uch that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic.