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ated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet. [Poetic] Shak.

A bombardment. [Poetic & R.] J. Barlow.

son or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.

Drunken; sotted; boozy. In his cups the bousy poet songs. Dryden.

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. -- a.

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

To cover as with breeches. [Poetic] Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Shak.

The marriage bed. [Poetic]

Briefly. [Obs. or Poetic] Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief. Milton.

Splendor; brightness. [Poetic] Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear. Milton.

Having glittering armor. [Poetic] Milton.

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth.

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.

ith mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

ecome smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large. A slender poet must have time to grow, And spread and burnish as his brothers do. Dryden. My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. Herbert.

Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. Golden cadence of poesy. Shak. If in any composition much attention was paid to the flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the 14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire cadence." Dr. Guest.