leonine verse
noun
1
: Latin verse in which the last word in the line rhymes with the word just before the middle caesura (as in "gloria factorum temere conceditus horum")
2
: English verse in which the end of the line rhymes with a sound occurring near the middle of the line (as in Tennyson's "the long light shakes across the lakes")
Word History
Etymology
probably from French léonin, from Middle French, from Old French
- sulfur dye
- sulfur family
- sulfur flour
- sulfur hexafluoride
- sulfur match
- sulfur monochloride
- sulfur mushroom
- sulfur oil
- sulfur olive oil
- sulfur oxide
- sulfur point
- sulfur polypore
- sulfur shelf
- sulfur spring
- sulfur subchloride
- sulfur toning
- sulfur trioxide
- sulfur water
- sulfurated
- sulfurates
- sulfurating
- sulfurations
- sulfurator
- sulfured
- sulfureous