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One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.

Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.)

has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. Addison. -- To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites.…

Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

A steward; an overseer. [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ. John Knox.

One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.

One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history. De Quincey.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. The blank verse shall halt for it. Shak.

xterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.

parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

man body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

One versed in helminthology.

Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.

en in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.

A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.