noun. A trisyllabic metrical foot having an unaccented or short syllable between two accented or long syllables, as in Peter Pan.

noun. In prosody, a foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in Latin cāstĭtās: the opposite of amphibrach.

noun. A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cāst�tās.

noun. A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable between two accented syllables; a cretic

"But perchance if ye would seeme yet more curious, in place of these four _Trocheus_ ye might induce other feete of three times, as to make the three sillables next following the _dactil_, the foote [_amphimacer_] the last word [_Sepulcher_] the foote [_amphibracus_] leauing the other midle word for a [_Iambus_] thus."