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Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.

An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.

See Hoopoe. [Obs.]

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.

A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.

l beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor. "Hypercritics in English poetry." Dryden.

A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

t cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but…

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes,…

A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.

suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden.

urpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to…

The act of imitating. Poesy is an art of imitation, . . . that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth. Sir P. Sidney.

To pave. [Poetic] Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic. Wordsworth.

To form into pearls, or into that which resembles pearls. [Poetic] Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton.

Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.

e adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry. J. Fletcher.

the old. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.