elegy /elˈi-ji/

1. A song of mourning
2. A funeral song (archaic)
3. A poem of serious, pensive, or reflective mood
4. A poem written in elegiac metre

elegīˈac adjective

1. Belonging to elegy
2. Mournful
3. Used in elegies, esp applied to classical verse in couplets of hexameter and pentameter lines (elegiac couplets), or to English verse in two stanzas of four iambic pentameters rhyming abab (elegiac stanzas)

(often in pl) elegiac verse

elegīˈacal adjective

elegiˈacally adverb

• stickit
• stickit minister
• stickit ministers
• stick it to
• stickjaw
• stickjaws
• stickle
• stickleader
• stickleaders
• stickleback
• sticklebacks
• stickled
• stickler
• stickler-like
• sticklers
• stickles
• stickling
• stick one's bib in
• stick one's neck out
• stick one's nose into
• stick one's oar in
• stick or snee
• stick out
• stick out for
• stick out like a sore thumb