a.
Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.
a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.
n.
An iambic foot; an iambus.
n.
A verse composed of iambic feet.
n.
A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.
adv.
In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.
v. t.
To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.
n.
A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under Iambic, n.
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