Elegy

Entertainment / Music / Elegy: An instrumental lament with praise for the dead.
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Entelegyne

Science / Spiders / Entelegyne: The group of spiders in which the females have an epigyne. MORE

Quatrain

Entertainment / Literature / Quatrain: Also sometimes used interchangeably with 'stave,' a quatrain is a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern. Three quatrains form the main body of a Shakespearean or English sonnet along MORE

Meter

Science / Chemistry / Meter: The meter is the basic unit of length in the SI system of units, defined as the distance light travels through a vacuum in exactly 1/299792458 seconds. 1 m = 39.37 inches. Meters are abbreviated as 'm MORE

Lyric

Entertainment / Literature / Lyric: (from Greek lyra 'song') The lyric form is as old as Egypt (surviving examples date back to 2600 BCE), and examples exist in early Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and other sources. If literature from every cul MORE

Monody

Entertainment / Literature / Monody: Any elegy or dirge represented as the utterance of a single speaker. Compare with dramatic monologue. MORE

Pastoral

Entertainment / Literature / Pastoral: An artistic composition dealing with the life of shepherds or with a simple, rural existence. It usually idealized shepherds' lives in order to create an image of peaceful and uncorrupted existence. M MORE