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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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871 words match “POE”

TUNELESS a. 3 definitions

Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]

Turbulence. What a tale of terror now its turbulency tells! Poe.

A troop; a company. [Obs. or Poetic] Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings. Milton.

TURN v. 41 definitions

Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt. "The poet's pen turns them to shapes." Shak. His limbs how turned, how broad his shoulders spread ! Pope. He was perfectly well turned for trade. Addison.

Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. "Children twain." Chaucer. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matt. v. 41. In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder. When old winder split the rocks in twain. Dryden. -- Twain cloud. (Meteor.) Same as Cumulo-s…

TWITTLE-TWATTLE n. 3 definitions

An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language.

UDDERLESS a. 2 definitions

Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs. [Poetic] Keats.

UNAWARE adv. 2 definitions

Unawares. [Poetic] Dryden.

UNDER prep. 8 definitions

. abused Fanatic Egypt. Milton. Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine. Felton. Under this head may come in the several contests and wars betwixt popes and the secular princes. C. Leslie.

Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.

UNDERSONG n. 2 definitions

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.

UNDERVALUE v. 3 definitions

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

UNEQUAL a. 5 definitions

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

UNGOT; UNGOTTEN a. 2 definitions

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

UNIFORMITY n. 5 definitions

ction, effect, etc., under like conditions; even tenor; as, the uniformity of design in a poem; the uniformity of nature.

UNPOSSIBILITY n.

Impossibility. [R.] "Utter unpossibility." Poe.

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

UNTRUE adv. 3 definitions

Untruly. [Obs. or Poetic] Chaucer.

Unusualness. Poe.

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