noun. A trisyllabic metrical foot having one accented or long syllable between two unaccented or short syllables, as in the word remember.

noun. In prosody, a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short: as, hăbērě, in Latin: the opposite of amphimacer.

noun. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (˘ -- ˘); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet"ic.

noun. A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amāta).

noun. A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica).

noun. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')

"If such a method of discriminating types be applied to the present material, then the most easily coördinated -- the most natural -- form is the dactyl; the anapæst stands next; the amphibrach is the most unnatural and difficult to coördinate."

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