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antiphona, fr. Gr. anthaine, anteine, antieune, F. antienne. See 1. Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music. 2. A song or hymn

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antiphona, fr. Gr. anthaine, anteine, antieune, F. antienne. See 1. Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music. 2. A song or hymn of praise. Milton.

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  • ANTHEMIS
    Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
  • BALLADE
    A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • DITTY
    p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended
  • CAROLING
    A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.
  • CAROLINE
    A coin. See Carline.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • CAROLUS
    An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.
  • STRAINED
    1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
  • LYRIC; LYRICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton.
  • CAROLINIAN
    A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina.
  • CAROL; CARROL
    A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker.
  • BALLADRY
    Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
  • ANTHEMWISE
    Alternately. Bacon.
  • LYRICALLY
    In a lyrical manner.
  • ANTHEMION
    A floral ornament. See Palmette.
  • CAROLINA PINK
    See PINKBOOT
  • STRAINT
    Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser.
  • BALLADER
    A writer of ballads.
  • STRAIN
    1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • RESTRAINEDLY
    With restraint. Hammond.
  • SUPERSTRAIN
    To overstrain. Bacon.
  • MESEMBRYANTHEMUM
    A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f
  • UNSTRAINED
    1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
  • EXANTHEMA
    An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
  • CONSTRAINED
    Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
  • UNRESTRAINT
    Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
  • CAROL
    together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol,

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