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
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• 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.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• 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.
• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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.