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An obsolete form of orchestra. Or chest i a (ôr-kes'ti-ä), n. [NL., IMG:content-1801.png:[blocks in formation] tique = Pg. or chestico, Poetic rhythm, as well as orchestic and musical rhythm. Trans. Amer. Philol. A ., XVI. 78. II. n. The art of dancing; especially, among the ancient Greeks, the art which uses the rhythmical movements of the human body as a means of scenic expre ion: also used in the plural with the same meaning as in the singular. The silent art of orchestic has its arses and theses, its trochees and iambi, its dactyls and anapæsts, not le truly than music and poetry. J. Hadley, E ays, p. 81. Orchestiidæ (ôr-kes-ti'i-dē), n. pl. [NL.,