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.
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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.
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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.
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A specimen of metrical composition; a piece of poetry; a poem.
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Metrical composition in general; versification; hence, poetical composition; poetry, especially as involving metrical form: opposed to prose.
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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.
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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.
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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
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A short division of a chapter in any book of Scripture, usually forming one sentence, or part of a long sentence or period.
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A similar division in any book.