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Same as Pol.

The parson bird.

Same as Poicile.

Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.

One of the Poecilopoda. Also used adjectively.

Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).

ertain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical. [R.] Coleridge.

A variety of jade or nephrite, -- used in New Zealand for the manufacture of axes and weapons.

See Penology.

A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies. -- Po*eph"a*gous, a.

The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. Shak.

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See und…

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

The works of a poetaster. [R.]

A female poet.

Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments. Shak.

In a poetic manner.

The principles and rules of the art of poetry. J. Warton.

A poetaster. Swinburne.