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se, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

-- For all the world, wholly; exactly. "Whose posy was, for all the world, like cutlers' poetry." Shak. -- For as much as, or Forasmuch as, in consideration that; seeing that; since. -- For by. See Forby, adv. -- For ever, eternally; at all times. See Forever. -- For me, or For all me, as far as regards me. -- Fo…

institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.

ch is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying. Artificial gem, an imitation of a gem, made of glass colored with metallic oxide. Cf. Paste, and Strass.

in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening. [Scot. & North of Eng., and in poetry.] Hogg.

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

iking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman.

A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry. He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes.

heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. -- Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry. -- Heroic treatment or remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epi…

To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

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

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

finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.…

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

The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.