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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, epitrite, feminine caesura, foot, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, ionic, jingle, lilt, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pentameter, pentapody, period, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, rhythm, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee
Dictionary Results for anapest:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
anapest
    n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed
         syllables [syn: anapest, anapaest]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Anapest \An"a*pest\, n. [L. anapaestus, Gr. ? an anapest, i.e.,
   a dactyl reserved, or, as it were, struck back; fr. ?; 'ana`
   back + ? to strike.]
   1. (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the
      first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented
      ([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In
      Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English
      in-ter-vene[bprime], are examples of anapests.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A verse composed of such feet.
      [1913 Webster]

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