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A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

s, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

Dear; beloved. [Obs., except in poetry.] "My liefe mother." Chaucer. "My liefest liege." Shak. As thou art lief and dear. Tennyson.

life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness, n. Poe.

Animated; sprightly. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Life"some*ness, n.

A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --

To hearken; to attend; to listen. [Obs. except in poetry.] Stand close, and list to him. Shak.

With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.

; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures. Wit, eloquence, and poetry. Arts which I loved. Cowley.

Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden.

hery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.

has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. Shak.

To make lustrous. [R. & Poetic] Flooded and lustered with her loosened gold. Lowell.

ged instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. Addison. Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. -- Infernal machine. See under Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or bolt adapted f…