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A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

ns have since been published. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims and Douay version.]

One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome. "A series of dullish verses." Prof. Wilson.

ring. [Obs.] The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24 (Douay version).

One versed in ecclesiology.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.

One versed in electro-biology.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle.

One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules le…

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates. Shak.

One versed in entomology.

One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.