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Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versatile. -- Ma"ny-sid`ed*ness, n.

One versed in mathematics.

One versed in mazology or mastology.

by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products. We have also divers mechanical arts. Bacon.

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]

Alternately responsive, as verses.

A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

One who is versed in metaphysics.

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsw…

One versed in metoposcopy.

Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

A composer of verses. [Obs.]

Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.] Tennyson.

To make verse. [R.] Skelton.

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

A mania for writing verses.

One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]

One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.