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- English Word Rhythm Definition In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
- English Word Rhythm Definition Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
- English Word Rhythm Definition A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
- English Word Rhythm Definition The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
- English Word Rhythmer Definition One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter.
- English Word Rhythmic Definition Alt. of Rhythmical
- English Word Rhythmical Definition Pertaining to, or of the nature of, rhythm
- English Word Rhythmically Definition In a rhythmical manner.
- English Word Rhythmics Definition The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.
- English Word Rhythming Definition Writing rhythm; verse making.
- English Word Rhythmless Definition Being without rhythm.
- English Word Rhythmometer Definition An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.
- English Word Rhythmus Definition Rhythm.
- English Word Rhytina Definition See Rytina.
- English Word Rial Definition A Spanish coin. See Real.
- English Word Rial Definition Royal.
- English Word Rial Definition A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
- English Word Riant Definition Laughing; laughable; exciting gayety; gay; merry; delightful to the view, as a landscape.
- English Word Rib Definition One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
- English Word Rib Definition That which resembles a rib in form or use.