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century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

ddle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. Chaucer.

The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] Chaucer.

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.

the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into the Christian date, or vice versa, for the years 1900-1935 a. d.

A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

One who is versed in, or who studies, mycology.

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.

iction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or nothing (Fig.), at all risks. -- Neck verse. (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. Sir W. Scott. (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which decides o…

One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.

Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.…

One versed in noölogy.

One versed in nosology.

ted by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope.

dious; musical. [Obs.] Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse. Milton. -- Nu"mer*ous*ly, adv. -- Nu"mer*ous*ness, n.