- Abstain from chorus - Chorus - Complaint oft-repeated when fire ran amok - Hold back (from) - Often-repeated complaint - Phrase or verse repeated at intervals especially at the end of a song, etc. - Regularly recurring melody
- Grasping - transfixing - of Hold - The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. - A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. - That which holds, binds, or influences. - The burden or chorus of a song.
- Artistic dance form - Dancing style - Elaborate style of dancing - An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment,
or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a
scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. - The company of persons who perform the ballet. - A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or
chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. - A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls,
which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
- In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the
chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right
to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. - The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the
master of the servant and the servant of the master. - The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against
him.