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A burden in popular songs. [Obs.] Delicate burthens of dildos and fadings. Shak.

he first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.

A ditty; a song. [Obs.]

mposed as a ditty; -- usually in composition. Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song. Milton.

A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

ted to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.

his nature will have weight to drag thee down. Tennyson. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

igned to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. Milton.

by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." J. C. Shairp. -- To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. -- To drink the health of, or To drink to t…

A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song. [R.]

tch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang] -- Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] Marryat. -- Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part rem…

iscriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. Songs . . . not all ungrateful to thine ear. Tennyson.

xpressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

le; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace. Dryden.

To call for a repetition or reappearance of; as, to encore a song or a singer. [Rebecca] insisted upon encoring one of the duets. Thackeray.

s or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Relating to victory. "An epinicial song." T. Warton.

A song of triumph. [Obs.] T. Warton.