Minstrel: alternatives and connections

a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- wit…

the arts of decorative design and handicraft; "they sponsored arts and crafts in order to encourage craftsmanship in an age of mass pr…

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger…

The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowled…

To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated su…

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

A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem wri…

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order.; "James Scully has observed that much of what is…

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp;…

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…

Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal mu…

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

One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular…

A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.

A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.

of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"