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To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide. [Archaic or Poetic] Shak. They say wild beasts inhabit here. Waller.

Insomusch as that field is called . . . Aceldama. Acts i. 19. Simonides was an excellent poet, insomuch that he made his fortune by it. L'Estrange.

communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue. Erato, thy poet's mind inspire, And fill his soul with thy celestial fire. Dryden.

Instantly. [Poetic] Instant he flew with hospitable haste. Pope.

description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

That which is within; the interior. [Poetic] Mrs. Browning.

on. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden.

Anger; wrath. [Poet.]

An island. [Poetic] Imperial rule of all the seagirt isles. Milton.

sports, wrestling, boxing, racing on foot and in chariots, and also contests in music and poetry. The prize was a garland of pine leaves.

Jesus. [Poetical]

; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic. A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. Dryden.

s of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

or evil omen. Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee. Beau. & Fl. Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, "alone". Ld. Lytton.

the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. Shak.

Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.

One of the poets of the Lake school. See Lake poets, under Lake, n.

ubject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon. Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.

See Languishiment. [Obs. or Poetic] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. Pope.