transitive verb. To play against (an opponent) in a competition.

transitive verb. To familiarize by study or experience.

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noun. A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.

noun. A division of a metrical composition, such as a stanza of a poem or hymn.

noun. A poem.

noun. Metrical or rhymed composition as distinct from prose; poetry.

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noun. The art or work of a poet.

noun. A group of poems.

noun. Metrical writing that lacks depth or artistic merit.

noun. A particular type of metrical composition, such as blank verse or free verse.

noun. One of the numbered subdivisions of a chapter in the Bible.

transitive & intransitive verb . To versify or engage in versifying.

To turn; revolve, as in meditation.

To relate or express in verse; turn into verse or rime.

To make verses.

In heraldry, reversed or turned in a direction unusual to the bearing in question. Also renverse.

noun. In prosody: A succession of feet (colon or period) written or printed in one line; a line: as, a poem of three hundred verses; hence, a type of metrical composition, as represented by a metrical line; a meter. A verse may be catalectic, dimeter, trimeter, iambic, dactylic, rimed, unrimed, alliterative, etc.

noun. A type of metrical composition, represented by a group of lines; a kind of stanza: as, Spencerian verse; hence, a stanza: as, the first verse of a (rimed) hymn.

noun. A specimen of metrical composition; a piece of poetry; a poem.

noun. Metrical composition in general; versification; hence, poetical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form: opposed to prose.

noun. A succession of words written in one line; hence, a sentence, or part of a sentence, written, or fitted to be written, as one line; a Stich or stichos.

noun. Hence— In liturgies, a sentence, or part of a sentence, usually from the Scriptures, especially from the Book of Psalms, said alternately by an officiant or leader and the choir or people: specifically, the sentence, clause, or phrase said by the officiant or leader, as distinguished from the response of the choir or congregation; a versicle.

noun. In church music, a passage or movement for a single voice or for soloists, as contrasted with chorus; also, a soloist who sings such a passage

noun. A short division of a chapter in any book of Scripture, usually forming one sentence, or part of a long sentence or period.

noun. A similar division in any book.

transitive verb. To tell in verse, or poetry.

intransitive verb. To make verses; to versify.

noun. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.

noun. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.

noun. A short division of any composition.

noun. A stanza; a stave.

noun. One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.

noun. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.

noun. A piece of poetry.

noun. poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.

noun. See under Heroic.

noun. A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.

noun. Poetic form in general.

noun. One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.

noun. A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.

verb. To compose verses.

verb. To educate about, to teach about.

verb. To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.

verb. compose verses or put into verse

noun. a piece of poetry

noun. literature in metrical form

verb. familiarize through thorough study or experience

noun. a line of metrical text