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anying strain; subordinate and underlying meaning; accompaniment; undertone. In the very [poetry] there often an undersong of sense which none beside the poetic mind . . . can comprehend. Landor.

ty. Atterbury. I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry. Dryden.

Not begotten. [Obs. or Poetic] "His loins yet full of ungot princes." Waller.

To separate, as sisters; to disjoin. [Poetic & R.] Tennyson.

Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer.

he process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.

neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne.

To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag. Poets used to vapor much after this manner. Milton. We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them. Walpole.

A wanderer; one who strays in search of variety. [Poetic] Pious variers from the church. Tennyson.

Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red. [Poetic & R.] In her cheeks the vermeil red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed. Spenser.

etrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. Prior. Verse embalms virtue. Donne.

A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

One who versifies, or makes verses; as, not every versifier is a poet. Dryden.

To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse. I'll versify the truth, not poetize. Daniel.

Excitement of imagination such as animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing; rapture; enthusiasm; spirit; energy.

A destroyer. [R. & Poetic] There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under Dyonysian.

Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling the style of Virgil. [Spelt also Vergilian.] The rich Virgilian rustic measure Of Lari Maxume. Tennyson.

; value; merit; meritoriousness; worth. I made virtue of necessity. Chaucer. In the Greek poets, . . . the economy of poems is better observed than in Terence, who thought the sole grace and virtue of their fable the sticking in of sentences. B. Jonson.