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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hexameter \Hex*am"e*ter\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] of six meters; (sc. [?]) hexameter verse; "e`x six + [?] measure: cf. F. hexam[8a]tre. See {Six}, and {Meter}.] (Gr. & Lat. Pros.) 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 always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the [92]neid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. --Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swelling and | limitless | billows, Nothing be- | fore and | nothing be- | hind but the | sky and the | ocean. --Coleridge. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hexameter \Hex*am"e*ter\, a. Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees. --Holland. | |
