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An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton.

Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.

World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

ss; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Africa. [Poetic]

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

istent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

iven place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.