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To make verse. [R.] Skelton.

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

A mania for writing verses.

nus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.

A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm. Shak.

Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to Ant: megaseme.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]

One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.

century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

ddle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. Chaucer.

ws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed. They considered not the miracle of the loaves. Mark vi. 52.

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." Milton. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness, n.

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.] Chaucer.

column of the same body) which would be necessary to elongate a prismatic body of a transverse section equal to a given unit, as a square inch or foot, to double, or to compress it to half, its original length, were that degree of elongation or compression possible, or within the limits of elasticity; -- called also Y…

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

ike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. -- Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. -- Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigati…