Word Meanings - STANZA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. (more info) stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p.pr. of stare to stand. See 1. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of
Additional info about word: STANZA
An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber. (more info) stanza, i. e., a stop, fr. L. stans, p.pr. of stare to stand. See 1. A number of lines or verses forming a division of a song or poem, and agreeing in meter, rhyme, number of lines, etc., with other divisions; a part of a poem, ordinarily containing every variation of measure in that poem; a combination or arrangement of lines usually recurring; whether like or unlike, in measure. Horace confines himself strictly to one sort of verse, or stanza, in every ode. Dryden.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - CHAMBERING
Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13. - RHYMERY
The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - METERGRAM
A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation. - CHAMBERER
1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - METERAGE
The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring. - CHAMBERED
Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - STANDPIPE
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level - FORME
See PATTé - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - VACUOMETER
An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - ACIDIMETER
An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure. - PNEUMONOMETER
A spirometer; a pneumometer. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - LORDLINESS
The state or quality of being lordly. Shak. - ALTIMETER
An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight. - PNEOMETER
A spirometer. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.