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To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize. I versify the truth, not poetize. Donne.

s by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

mbs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

The state or personality of a poet. [R.]

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. R. Browning.

A government by many chiefs, princes, or rules. [Obs.] Cudworth.

One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.

Furnished with a portico.

One contemporary with, but older than, another. [Obs.] Fuller.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Same as Procoele.

Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebræ, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.

Same as Procoelian.

Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. [R.] Hammond.

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. [R.] See Metemptosis.

A hoe with prongs to break the earth.

The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone.