poet 
The poet represents the things aa they are impressed on 
his mind by the hand of the Creator. 
Landor, Chesterfield and Chatham. 
The poet Is the man whose emotions, intonser than those 
of other men, naturally find a vent for themselves In some 
form of harmonious words, whether this be the form of 
metre or of balanced and musical prose. 
J. C. Shairp, Poetic Interpretation of Nature, L 
Poet laureate. _see laureate. -Poet's cassia, si-i-o.,,,/, 
poetaster (po'et-as-ter), H. [= OF. poetastre 
= Sp. It. poetastro, < NL. "poetaster, < L. poeta, 
a poet (see poet), + dim. -aster.} A petty poet ; 
a feeble rimester, or a writer of indifferent 
verses. 
He (Voltaire) was well acquainted with all the petty van- 
ities and affectations of the poetatter. 
Miimuliiii, Frederic the Great. 
He makes no demand on our charity In favor of some 
!>, latter for whom he may have imbibed a strange affeu- 
'>"" Whipple, Ess. and Rev., I. 3-2. 
poetastry (po'et-as-tri), . [< poetaster + -3. ] 
The rimed effusions of a poetaster; paltry 
verses. 
poetess (po'et-es), . [= P. poetesse = Sp. po- 
etisa = Pg. poetiza = It. poetessa,< ML. poetissa, 
fern, of L. poeta, a poet: see poet and -ess.} A 
woman who is a poet. 
poethood(po'et-hud),. \_<poet + -hood.] The 
state or quality of being a poet ; the inherent 
qualifications or the conditions that constitute 
a poet. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 47. 
poetic (po-et'ik), a. [= P. poetique = Sp. po- 
etico = Pg. It. poetico (cf. D. G. poetisch = Sw. 
Dan. poetisk), < I,, poeticits, < Gr. iroi^mrff, cre- 
ative, poetic, < Trotetv, make (> Troir/ri/c, poet): 
see poet.} 1. Of or pertaining to poetry ; of the 
nature of or expressed in poetry; possessing the 
qualities or the charm of poetry : as, a poetic 
composition ; poetic style. 
In our own day such poetic descriptions of Nature have 
burst the bonds of metre altogether, and filled many u 
splendid page of poetic or imaginative prose. 
J. C. Shairp, Poetic Interpretation of Nature, viii. 
2. Of or pertaining to a poet or poets; charac- 
teristic of or befitting a poet: as, poetic genius ; 
poetic feeling; poetic license. 
Then farewell hopes o' laurel boughs. 
To garland my poetic brows ! 
Burm, To James Smith. 
He (Faraday! was always in the temper of the poet, and, 
like the poet, he continually reached that point of emotion 
which produces poetic creation. Stop/ord Brooke, Faraday. 
3. Endowed with the feeling or faculty of a 
poet; having the susceptibility, sensibility, or 
expression of a poet ; like a poet : as, a poetic 
youth; a^ocrtcface. 
What warm, poetic heart but inly bleeds, 
And execrates man's savage, ruthless deeds ' 
Burn*, Brigs of Ayr. 
4. Celebrated, or worthy to be celebrated, in 
poetry: as, a, poetic scene. 
When you are on the east coast of Sicily you are In the 
most poetic locality of the classic world. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 104. 
Mere trade became poetic while dealing with the spices 
of ArahlH, the silks of Damascus, the woven stuffs of 
Persia, the pearls of Ceylon. 
C. JS. burton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 41. 
5. Of or pertaining to making or shaping, espe- 
cially to artistic invention and arrangement. 
[Recent.] 
Poetic philosophy is a form of knowledge having refer- 
ence to the shaping of material, or to the technically cor- 
rect and artistic creation of works of art. 
Ueoeruxff, Hist. Pliilos. (trans.), I. 
Poetic Justice, an ideal distribution of rewards and pun- 
ishments such as is common In poetry and works of fiction, 
but seldom exists In real life. 
And so It came to pass that quite unintentionally, and 
yet by a sort of poetic jtmtice, Rodrigue's letter to Hose, as 
hers to him, was written by a third person. 
The Century, XXXVII. 584. 
Poetic license, a privilege or liberty taken by a poet In 
using words, phrases, or matters of fact In order to pro- 
duce a desired effect. 
poetical (po-et'i-kal), . [(.poetic + -/.] Same 
&s poetic. 
Poetical expression includes sound as well as meaning. 
"Music, "says Dryden, "is inarticulate poetry." 
Johmon, Pope. 
poetically (po-et'i-kal-i), adv. In a poetical 
sense or manner; according to the laws of po- 
etry. 
The critics have concluded that It is not necessary the 
manners of the hero should be virtuous. They are poeti- 
cally good if they are of a piece. Dryden, .Eneid, Ded. 
4581 
A study which sets before us In fascinating relief the 
professional poeKcult of a period In which as yet clubs, 
coterie*, and newspapers were not. 
A. C. Sinnburne, Nineteenth Century, XXI. 97. 
poetization (po'et-i-za'shon), M. [< poetize + 
-ation.} Composition in verse ; the act of ren- 
dering in the form of poetry. Also spelled po- 
etisatioii. 
The great movement for the poetization of Latin prow 
which was begun by Sallust ran Its course till It culminated 
In the monstrous style of Fronto. Kiu-ye. Brit., XX. 187. 
poetize (po'et-iz), v. ; pret. and pp. poetized, ppr. 
poetizing. [< P. poetiser = Sp. Pg. poetizar = 
It. poetizzare, poetezzare, < ML. poetizare, poeti- 
sare, compose poetry, < L. poeta, a poet: see poet 
and -tee.} I. intrant. To compose poetry ; write 
as a poet. 
I versify the truth, not. poetize. Donne. 
H. trans. To make poetic ; cause to conform 
to poetic standards ; express in a poetic form. 
What Ovid did but poetize, experience doth moralise our 
manners actually perform. Rev. T. Adamt, Works, I. 212. 
Virgil has, upon many occasions, poetized ... a whole 
sentence by means of the same word. 
Goldnnith, Poetry Distinguished from other Writing. 
Instead of the sublime and beautiful, the near, the low, 
the common, was explored and poetized. 
Kmenon, Misc., p. S. 
Also spelled poetise. 
poet-musician (pd y et-mu-zish'an), n. One 
in whom the gifts and skill of the'poet and the 
musician are united; a bard, 
poetresst (po'et-res), . [< OF.poeteresse, as if 
< ML. "poetrissa for L. poetris, poetria, a poet, 
( Gr. Troti/Tpta, fern, of To/7/rr/f, a poet : see poet. 
Cf. poetess.} Same as poetess. 
Most peerless poetrett. 
The true Pandora of all heavenly graces. Spenter. 
poetry (po'et-ri), n. [< ME. poetrye, poetrie, < 
OK. poetrie, poeterie, potcrie, poetrerie = Olt. 
J..- . S \f\ . -.*__ i e f 
Pogonorhynchus 
poetship (po'et-ship), . [< poet+ -ship.} The 
state of being a poet : poethood. 
poet-sucker (po'et-suk'er), n. Asueklingpoet; 
an immature or precocious poet. [Low.] 
What lays my poet-tudter! 
He 'i chewing his muse's cud, I do see by him. 
pogamoggan (pog-a-mog'an), n. [Amer. Ind.] 
A weapon used by some tribes of North Amer- 
ican Indians, consisting of a rounded stone in- 
closed in a net of woven fibers ending in a 
strong braid, by which it can be whirled. Com- 
pare sling-shot. 
pogge (pog), ii. A cottoid lish, the armed bull- 
head, Atjonus cataphractus. 
Pofflfe {Agmutcatafkrathtt). 
POggy 1 (pog'i), .; pi. Doggies (-iz). [Alsopog- 
gieT] A small arctic whale, yielding only about 
20 or 25 barrels of oil. supposed to be the young 
of the bow-head whale, Balsena mysticetus. C. 
.M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 60. See cut 
under tchale. 
POggy 2 (pog'i), n. Same asporyy. 
poghaden (pog-ha'dn), . [Amer. Ind.] The 
menhaden. Also pauhagen. 
pogie, n. Same as pogy. 
Pogonia 1 (po-go'ni-ft), n. [NL. (Jussieu, 1789), 
so called m allusion to the frequently fringed 
lip; < Gr. iruywnaf. bearded, 
< xuyuv, beard.] A genus of 
terrestrial orchids of the tribe 
Xeottiex and subtribo Jre- 
<!r. TtwijTpia, a poetess), < L. poeta, a poet: 
see poet and -ry.] 1. That one of the fine arts 
which addresses itself to the feelings and the 
imagination by the instrumentality of musical 
and moving words; the art which has for its 
object the exciting of intellectual pleasure by 
means of vivid, imaginative, passionate, and in- 
spiriting language, usually though not neces- 
sarily arranged in the form of measured verse 
or numbers. 
y poetry we mean the art of employing words in such 
a manner as to produce an illusion on the Imagination, the 
nature and laws of poetry. 
poeticule (po-et'i-kul), n. [< L. poeta, a poet, + 
dim. term, -culus.} A petty poet; a poetaster. 
288 
By poetry we mean the art of 
manner as to produce an illnsio 
art of doing by means of words what the painter does by 
means of colours. Macaulay, Milton. 
Poetry Is itself a thing of God ; 
He made his prophets poeta ; and the more 
We feel of poesie do we become 
Likt Uod in love and power umk-i -makers. 
Bailey, Festus, Proem. 
The grand power of Poetry Is Its interpretative power, 
by which I mean . . . the power of so dealing with things 
as to awaken in us a wonderfully full, new, and Intimate 
sense of them, and of our relations with them. 
M. Arnold, Maurice de Guerln. 
We shall hardly make our definition of poetry, consid- 
ered as an imitative art, too extended if we say that it la 
a speaking art of which the business is to represent by 
means of verbal signs arranged with musical regularity 
everything for which verbal signs have been Invented. 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 207. 
2. An imaginative, artistic, and metrical col- 
location of words so marshaled and attuned as 
to excite or control the imagination and the 
emotions; the language of the imagination or 
emotions metrically expressed, in a wide sense 
poetry comprises whatever eml>odles the products of the 
imagination and fancy, and appeals to these powers in 
others, as well as to the finer emotions, the sense of ideal 
beauty, and the like. In this sense we speak of the poetry 
of motion. 
The essence of poetry Is Invention : such Invention as, 
by producing something unexpected, surprises and de- 
lights. Johiaon, Waller. 
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to 
science. Poetry Is opposed to science, and prose to metre. 
. . . The proper and immediate object of science Is the 
acquirement or communication of truth : the proper im- 
mediate object of poetry is the communication of imme- 
diate pleasure. Coleridge. 
No literary expression can, properly speaking, be called 
poetry that is not In a certain deep sense emotional what- 
ever may be Its subject matter, concrete in its method and 
its diction, rhythmical In movement, and artistic in form. 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 257. 
3. Composition in verse; a metrical composi- 
tion; verse; poems: as, heroic poetry; lyric or 
dramatic poetry; a collection of poetry. 
Don seyde that Omere made lyes 
Feyninge in his poetries. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, L 1477. 
And this young blrkie here, . . . will his ... poetria 
help him here? Scott, Bob Roy, xxiii 
ArcadiC, lyric, etc.. poetry. See the adjectives. 
i, the long wingless col- 
umn, and the undivided or 
three-lobed lip. There are over 
30 species, widely dispersed over the 
world, of which 5 occur in the United 
States. The typical species (Includ- 
ing the most common American, 
/'. ophiofflouoides, sometimes called 
tnalcc'x-tmntth orchis) grow in bogs, 
especially in the neighborhood of 
peat, aim produce a tuberous root, 
and a slender stem bearing a single 
handsome and fragrant pale-rose 
nodding flower, a single leaf, and a 
single Dract ; others have two or 
three leaves, and few or many flow- 
ers; a few bear a single flower sur- 
mounting a whorl of leaves ; and 
many of the Old World species pro- 
duce first a one-sided raceme of 
nodding flowers and later a single 
broad or roundish leaf. P. pendula 
is the three-birds orchis of the 
t'nlted States, named from the form 
of the fruit. 
pogonia'-', . Plural of poyo- 
nium. 
Pogonias (po-go'ni-as), . 
[NL. (Lacepede, 1802), < Gr. lOT&ffitSg 
Trtjjuv/of, bearded, ( TT>}UV, ^^^f >oflmta *fhfc- 
beard.] 1. In ichth., a genus ' 
of scieenoids, having numerous barbels on the 
lower jaw (whence the name); the drums or 
drumfish, as P. chromis. See cut under dn|i, 
11 (a). 2. In ornith., same as Pogonorhynchus. 
Illiger, 1811. 
pogoniasis (po-go-ni'a-sis), . [NL.,< Gr. 
irbywv, beard (cf . Twjuvia'f, bearded), + -iasis.} 
Excessive growth of beard, especially in a wo- 
man. 
pogoniate (po-go'ni-at), a. [< Gr. n-ujuvidrw, 
bearded, < x&yuv, beard.] 1. In zoo'l., bearded 
or barbate. 2. In ornith., webbed, as a fea- 
ther; having webs or pogonia ; vexillate. 
pogonium (po-go'ni-um), n.; pi. pogonia (-a). 
[NL., < Gr. mjyuvtav, dim. of xvvw, a beard.] 
In ornith., the web, vane, or vexillum of a fea- 
ther. 
Pogonorhynchinffl (po-go'no-ring-ki'ne), M. pi. 
[NL., < Pogonorhynchus + -iiiie.} A subfamily 
of Megalxiuitlie (or Capitonidx), typified by the 
genus Pogonorhynchus, and containing the Afri- 
can barbels. 
Pogonorhynchus (po-go-uo-ring'kus), . [NL. 
(\ an der Hoeven, 1835), ( Gr. iruyuv, beard, + 
snout.] A gen us_ of African barbels, 
; hav- 
which is 
strongly pogoniate. P. dvtnut is gkwry.black, blood- 
red, and white. P. hirmtut (or Jlacipunctata) is a barbet 
of the Gaboon, forming the type of the subgenui TVfcAo- 
lma. See cut on following pugu. 
typical of the subfamily Pogonorhynchiiw 
ing a large sulcate and dentate beak wt 
