rhea fiber (reafiber)

Same as ramie. rhea-gra (rea-gras), n. The ramie-plant. were written, and that on which the die lodged contain- ed the prediction. A third manner was by opening a book, and pitching on some verse at first sight. This method they particularly called the Sortes Prænest inæ, and after- wards, according to the poet thus made use of, Sortes Homericæ, Sortes Virgilianæ, . Rees, Cyclopædia. rhapsody (rap'sō-di), n.; pl. rhapsodies (-diz). See ramie . [Formerly also rhapsodie , rapsodie ; rap- sodie, F. rapsod rapsodie , rhapsodie = Sp. Pg. It. rap- sodia, rhapsodia , ῥαψῳδία , the reciting of epic poetry, a part of an epic recited at a time, a rhapsody, a tirade. ῥαψῳδός , a rhapso- dist: see rhapsode.] 1. The recitation of epic poetry; hence, a short epic poem, or such a part of a longer epic as could be recited at one time: as, the Homeric rhapsodies . A rhapsody Of Homer's. B. Jonson, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry, 1. 184. Rhapsody, originally applied to the portions of the poem habitually allotted to different performers in the order of recital, afterwards transferred to the twenty-four books into which each work [the Iliad and the Ody ey] was permanently divided by the Alexandrian grammarians. W. Mure , Lang. and Lit. of Anc. Greece, II. ii. § 5.