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verse | perse |

As a noun verse

is dew, dampness.

As a proper noun perse is

(greek god) an oceanid, (one of the three thousand daughters of the titans' oceanus and tethys), and the wife of the sun god, helios, with who she is the mother of aeetes, perses, pasiphae and circe one of her many sisters is amphitrite, (the wife of poseidon) perse is also closely identified with hecate or perse can be .

verse

English

Etymology 1

Partly from (etyl) vers; partly, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
  • Poetic form in general.
  • One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
  • A small section of the Jewish or Christian Bible.
  • Derived terms
    * blank verse * free verse

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (obsolete) To compose verses.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
  • To tell in verse, or poetry.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • playing on pipes of corn and versing love

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (vers)
  • to educate about, to teach about.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

    Etymology 3

    Back-formation from versus, misconstrued as a third-person singular verb *verses .

    Verb

    (vers)
  • (colloquial) To oppose, to be an opponent for, as in a game, contest or battle.
  • Anagrams

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    perse

    English

    Noun

  • A dark greyish blue colour
  • Adjective

  • Dark greyish blue or purple
  • Derived terms

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