Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To compose meters or verses.

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

  • intransitive verb rare To make verse.

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

  • verb To make verse.

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

  • verb convert from a non-metric to the metric system
  • verb compose in poetic meter

Etymologies

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Latin metrum meter + -fy: compare French métrifier.

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