Word Meanings - TETRACOLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.
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- CRABBER
One who catches crabs. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - CONSIST
1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - CRABBISH
Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker. - CONSISTORIAN
Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton. - CRABBING
The foghting of hawks with each other. (more info) 1. The act or art of catching crabs. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - CONSISTORY
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. - 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. - CRABBED
1. Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners. Crabbed age and youth can not live together. Shak. 2. Characterized by harshness or roughness; - 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 - DIVISIONAL
That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints. - CONSISTENT
1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; - LYRICALLY
In a lyrical manner. - CONSISTORIAL
Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley. - POETRY
1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, - LYRIC
The words of a song. (more info) 1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. 2. A composer of lyric poems. Addison. 3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural. 4. pl. - CRABBY
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. "Persius is crabby, because ancient." Marston. - CHURCHLINESS
Regard for the church. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - LORDLINESS
The state or quality of being lordly. Shak. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - CHILLINESS
1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - MELANCHOLINESS
The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - KINGLINESS
The state or quality of being kingly. - BEASTLINESS
The state or quality of being beastly. - BRISTLINESS
The quality or state of having bristles. - POORLINESS
The quality or state of being poorly; ill health. - ZOLLNER'S LINES
Parallel lines that are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections. - SLOVENLINESS
The quality or state of being slovenly.