Verse /(vẽrs)/

Verse

n.
  1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
  2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
    Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
    Virtue was taught in verse.
    Verse embalms virtue.
    — Donne.
  3. A short division of any composition.
  4. A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
  5. One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments. (Script.)
  6. A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part. (Mus.)
  7. A piece of poetry.

Phrases & Compounds
Blank verse
poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes.
Heroic verse
See under Heroic.

Verse

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Versed; p. pr. & vb. n. Versing

  1. To tell in verse, or poetry. [Obs.]
    Playing on pipes of corn and versing love.

Verse

v. i.
  1. To make verses; to versify. [Obs.]
    It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.