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To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [Poetic.] New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use. Shak.

To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.

To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

Composed or made; -- with of. [Poetic] A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton.

existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome.

to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.

Drawing of inferences. [Poetic] Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes And still conclusion. Shak.

er to have overlooked all these things, and, condoning the politics, to have rewarded the poetry of Burns. J. C. Shairp.

ccordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

To hesitate. [Poetic & R.] Dryden.

e of importance or consequence. Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin. Addison.

A corpse; the dead body of a human being. [Archaic or Poetic] Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. Shak.

The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato. The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. Goldsmith.

Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.] To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.

to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.