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46 words match “STICH”

STICH n. 3 definitions
A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
STICHIC a.
Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines. [R.]
STICHIDIUM n.
A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algæ.
STICHOMANCY n.
Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.
STICHOMETRICAL a.
Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
STICHOMETRY n. 2 definitions
Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.
STICHWORT n.
A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea). [Written also stitchwort.]
DECASTICH n.
A poem consisting of ten lines.
DISTICH n.
A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
DISTICH; DISTICHOUS a.
Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.
DISTICHOUSLY adv.
In a distichous manner.
HEMISTICH n.
Half a poetic verse or line, or a verse or line not completed.
HEMISTICHAL a.
Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.
HEPTASTICH n.
A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.
HEXASTICH; HEXASTICHON n.
A poem consisting of six verses or lines.
MASTICH n.
See Mastic.
MONOSTICH n.
A composition consisting of one verse only.
MONOSTICHOUS a.
Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.
OCTOSTICHOUS a.
In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.
OGDOASTICH n.
A poem of eight lines. [Obs.] Selden
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