01 n. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (⌣ -- ⌣); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable take…
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A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (⌣ -- ⌣); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro*phet"ic.(Anc. Pros.)