lyric

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form.
• adjective Relating to or constituting a poem in this category, such as a sonnet or ode.
• adjective Of or relating to a writer of poems in this category.
• adjective Lyrical.
• adjective Having a singing voice of light volume and modest range.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being musical drama, especially opera.
• adjective Having a pleasing succession of sounds; melodious.
• adjective Of or relating to the lyre or harp.
• adjective Appropriate for accompaniment by the lyre.
• noun A lyric poem.
• noun Music The words of a song.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To sing in a lyrical way.
• Pertaining or adapted to the lyre or harp; fit to be sung to an accompaniment; hence, pertaining to or characteristic of song; suggestive of music or song.
• Writing for or as if for the lyre, or with musical effect; composing songs, or poems of a song-like character: as, a lyric poet.
• noun A composer of lyric poems.
• noun A lyric composition or poem.
• noun A verse of the kind commonly used in lyric poetry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
• adjective Fitted to be sung to the lyre
• adjective expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet.
• noun A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
• noun rare A composer of lyric poems.
• noun A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• noun The words of a song.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective poetry Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style
• adjective Of, or relating to a writer of such poetry
• adjective lyrical
• adjective Having a light singing voice of modest range
• adjective Of, or relating to musical drama and opera
• adjective melodious
• adjective Of, or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp)
• noun A lyric poem.
• noun also in plural The words of a song or other vocal music. The singular form often refers to a part of the words, whereas the plural form can refer to all of the words.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a short poem of songlike quality
• adjective expressing deep emotion
• noun the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
• adjective of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
• adjective used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
• adjective relating to or being musical drama
• verb write lyrics for (a song)