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A seaman, or sailor. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer. R. Browning. About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country. Acts xxvii. 27. Shipman's card, the mariner's compass. [Obs.] Shak.

imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.

Somewhat shrill. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. Keats.

ch anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison. A good swift simile, but something currish. Shak.

al; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners. I grant that poetry's a crying sin. Pope.

th blessed thee, since my coming. Gen. xxx. 30. I have a model by which he build a nobler poem than any extant since the ancients. Dryden.

To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. Prior.

Bad singing or poetry.

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.

See Sirocco. [Poetic] Emerson.

A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.

Slightly. [Obs. or Poetic] Think not so slight of glory. Milton.

Slyly. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

hout check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. The only smooth poet of those times. Milton. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. Pope. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay.

Society verses Etym: [a translation of F. vers de société], the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite society.

The country ruled by a soldan, or sultan. [Poet.] Sir W. Scott.

wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem. J. A. Symonds.

eing, so to speak, all in the same boat. Trench. The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry. M. Arnold.

A written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself. The whole poem is a soliloquy. Prior.