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, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

n which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response.

offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.

A verse said before and after the psalms. Shipley.

An anthem or psalm sung alternately by a choir or congregation divided into two parts. Also figuratively. O! never more for me shall winds intone, With all your tops, a vast antiphony. R. Browning.

, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.

A young salmon; a grilse.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon.

ems of an account; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. [Obs.] For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats. Massinger.