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g; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- w…

which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.

two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.

rranged radially around the vertical axis of the body, and the various organs repeated symmetrically in each ray or spheromere.

uplicate ratio, Inverse ratio, etc. See under Compound, Duplicate, etc. -- Ratio of a geometrical progression, the constant quantity by which each term is multiplied to produce the succeeding one.

established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

e now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, and chiefly written by nations of the north of France. Hallam.

nent of Europe in the old form of the language, as shown particularly in the "Heliand", a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.

se, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically.

The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.

the number expressing the ratio line of this line to the radius of the circle. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper.

onger edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.

-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.

lines do not intersect; a warped surface; as, the helicoid is a skew surface. -- Skew symmetrical determinant (Alg.), a determinant in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4…

Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.

The art of making songs or verse; metrical composition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.