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To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

o tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson.

To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

Reputation. [Poetic] Shak.

In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

A post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.

ters fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Wearied. [Poetic]

Weary. [Poetic] "I begin to be aweary of thee." Shak.

Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. [Now chiefly poetic]

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant…

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.

ling vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.