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An iambus or iambic. [R.]

able followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.

Iambic. [Obs. or R.]

In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.

To satirize in iambics; to lampoon. [R.]

one, as in âmans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

Same as Choriambus.

Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n.

and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

A diiambus.

A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (

Consisting of two iambic dimeters catalectic, the last of which lacks the final syllable; -- said of a kind of verse.

Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.] Spenser.

. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

(Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

t which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

Two metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure. Hadley. Trochaic, iambic, and anapestic verses . . . are measured by dipodies. W. W. Goodwin.

Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.)