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To be called or named. [Archaic & Poetic.]

ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats. Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining 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.

Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.

l beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor. "Hypercritics in English poetry." Dryden.

practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

t cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but…

finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.…

urpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to…

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls. [Poetic] Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton.

e adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry. J. Fletcher.

the old. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.

The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

India. [Poetical] Shak. Milton.

To lead in; to introduce. [Obs.] The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. Pope.

One who informs, animates, or inspires. [Obs.] Thomson. Nature, informer of the poet's art. Pope.

Ingrateful. [Obs. or Poetic] Bacon.