songster (songster)

[ who or that which sings or is skilled in singing. Every songster had sung out his fit. B. Jonson, Neptune's Triumph. Specifically, in ornith .: (a) A singer; a singing bird. ( b ) pl . Specifically, singing birds: the Oscines , Can to res, Can tatores , Acromyodi , or Polymyodi . 2. A writer of songs or poems. Silk will draw some sneaking songster thither. It is a rhyming age, and verses swarm At every stall. B. Jonson, An Elegy (Underwoods, lxi). sonometer Sp. Pg. sone to = It. so net to, G. Sw. sonett = Dan. sonet, a sonnet, canzonet), dim. of son, sound, tune, song, I have a sonnet that will serve the turn. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 2. 93. Teach me some melodious sonnet, Sung by flaming tongues above. R. Robinson , Come, Thou Fount of Every Ble ing. Specifically-2. A short poem in fixed form, limited to fourteen lines with a prescribed disposition of rimes. The form is of Italian origin. A sonnet is generally written in decasyllabic or five-foot measure; but it may be written in octosyllabics. It consists of two divisions or groups of lines-(1) a major group of eight lines or two quatrains, and (2) a minor group of six lines or two tercets. The quatrains are arranged thus: a, b, b, a; a, b, b, a ; the tercets, either c, d, c, d, c, d, or c, d, e, c, d, e. In modern French examples the order of the tercets is generally c, c, d, e, d, e. There are various deviations from the sonnet as thus described; but by purists the above is regarded as the orthodox form, established by long practice and prescription, all others be ing ranked simply as quatorzains, or what Lamb called fourteeners. With regard to the material of the poem, it is generally considered that it should be the expre ion of a single thought, idea, or sentiment. I can beste allowe to call those Sonnets whiche are of fouretene lynes, euery line conteyning tenne syllables. Gas coigne, Notes on Eng. Verse (ed. Arber), § 14. sonnet (son'et), v. [ trans . 1. To celebrate in sonnets. [Rare.] Daniel hath divinely sonnetted the matchle beauty of Delia. Francis Meres , in Arber's Eng. Garner, II. 96. IMG:content-1537.jpg:[graphic] zanger = OHG. sangar i, MHG. senger, G. sänger = Icel. söngvari = Dan. sanger = Sw. sångare ), a singer, psalmist,