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Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. [Obs. or Poetic] Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.

aureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's…

e, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.

A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

s, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] "My liefe mother." Chaucer. "My liefest liege." Shak. As thou art lief and dear. Tennyson.

Animated; sprightly. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Life"some*ness, n.

To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.] Stand close, and list to him. Shak.

With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. Cowley.

has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. Shak.

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.

ged instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. 4. pl.

Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify…

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. P. Plowman. To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled…