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In a poetic manner.

ling vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth.

sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

A sword; -- used poetically and loosely. The glaive which he did wield. Spenser.

ated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gu…

Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.

Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest. Collins.

-- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father. Shak. Save your reverence, Saving your reverence, an apologetical phrase for an unseemly expression made in the presence of a priest or clergyman. -- Sir reverence, a contracted form of Save your reverence…

The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. "Soft the zephyr blows." Gray. As gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet. Shak. Zephyr cloth, a thin kind of cassimere made in Belgium; also, a waterproof fabric of wool. -- Zephyr shawl, a kind of thin, light, embroidered shawl made of worsted and cotton. -- Ze…