Dactylic: alternatives and connections

A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two d…

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic ach…

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

A song or verses.

A rough draft or model of a song, air, or other literary or musical composition; esp. one to show a poet the measure of the verses he…

A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in…

a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devo…

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a…

A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.

To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to we…

A composition consisting of seven lines or verses.

A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth al…

A poem consisting of six verses or lines.

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All…

In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troub…

An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…