- The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry;
mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. - One of the asteroids. See Solar. - A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam
whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged
like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers. - A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope)
of California and adjacent regions.
- Rhyme - Verse - The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the
faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in
expression. - Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed
rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse;
rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or
Pindaric poetry.