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es occur in America and Australia. The common tree toad of the Northern United States (H. versicolor) is noted for the facility with which it changes its colors. Called also tree frog. See also Piping frog, under Piping, and Cricket frog, under Cricket. -- Tree warbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of arboreal w…

A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures. Lowth.

Three verses rhyming together.

A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng.] Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. C. A. Bristed. -- Tripos paper, a printe…

A trochaic verse or measure. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse.

One who studies, or is versed in, the nature and habits of humming birds, or the Trochilidæ. Gould.

st or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.

ification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans. Sir W. Hamilton.

The lower or second verse. [Obs.]

Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham.

A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow Job xxxix. 10.

One who is versed in universology.

Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses. -- Un*learn"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*learn"ed*ness, n.

Not versed in literature; illiterate. Dryden.

One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.

A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse.

One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.

An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church.

Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.