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rs. To open one's mouth, to speak. -- To open up, to lay open; to discover; to disclose. Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride." Prof. Wilson.

The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Milton.

A prayer; a supplication. [Poetic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.

Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains. Cowper.

The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

To sprout. [Poetic] Spenser.

consequence; upshot. "The logical outcome." H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

To dwell or stay beyond. [Poetic] "He outdwells his hour." Shak.

To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. [R.] And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.

To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding. [Poetic] At last our grating keels outslide. Whittier.

To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.

To gaze; to overlook. [Poetic] "Earth's o'ergazing mountains." Byron.

To cover with snow, or as with snow. [Poetic] Shak. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak. Whittier.

To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.

A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem. Brande & C.

y clauses expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: -- At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Judg. v. 27.

e of a parallelism; involving parallelism. The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew poetry is entirely lost. Milman.