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one excels. fort"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

ental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. Shak.

. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. Addison.

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

ch is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. [R. or Poet.] To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young.

A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic] Bacon. From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper. That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

A sword; -- used poetically and loosely. The glaive which he did wield. Spenser.

To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak.

Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [Poetic] Shak.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.

To make hot; to flush. [Poetic] Fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool. Shak.

of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.)