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jeer. Several little flirts and vibrations. Addison. With many a flirt and flutter. E. A. Poe.

Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.

se, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

ep; the sound of a footstep. Shak. Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. Poe

be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. Dennis.

Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic or Poetic] "The forgetful wine." J. Webster.

one excels. fort"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

ental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic] What makes that frontlet on Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown. Shak.

. 28. [Nature] By disburdening grows More fruitful. Milton. The great fruitfulness of the poet's fancy. Addison.

by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and lar…

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. [Poetic] A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.

ch is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

A birthday poem.

in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. [R. or Poet.] To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young.

A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.