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A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song. [R.]

To play the duke. [Poetic] Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. Shak.

fe's early morning sky. Keble. The forms of its earlier manhood. Longfellow. The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. J. C. Shairp. Early English (Philol.) See the Note under English. -- Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman sty…

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

Ebony. [Poetic] "Framed of ebon and ivory." Sir W. Scott.

ny; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

he author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language. Earle. In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Ter…

Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

Elevated; raised aloft. [Poetic] Milton.

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…

f you some of that money. Shak. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. Poe. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. Gen. xxv. 21.