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STICHOS, ~"""O;, a rank or rOto;· order, a lme
or verse.
ACRO.STIC, aKpos, a~..rl5sJ the top, extremity. A short
piece of poetry, of which each verse commences by a
letter ofthe name of the person or object which forms
the subject marked by order of the extremities.
Di-stich, 01, di, dis, two, twice. A couplet.
Hemi-stich, fJlJ.lCTVS, It-;;niisus, half. HaIfa verse or line.
1\Iono.stich, P.OIl0S, monos, single. A composition ofone
single verse. .
SULLABE, ~vi.A",f:~, a syllable.
Sn-LADLE, (sul, for) sun, with; and labi!, AaflfJavw,
[ambano, I take together. A syIlable is properly thc
letters which are comprised (taken together) in a
single emission ofthe voice.
Dis-syIlable, 0,,·di, two. A word of two syIlables.
lVlono-syIlable, flovos, m~n~s, single. A word of one
syIlable.
Poly-syIlable, ",oAv" p~lus, many. A word of several
syIlables.
Tri-.yIlable, "'pElS, trl!is, three. A word of three
syIlables.
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T.f:CHNE, T,,,v~, art, or science.
ARITIIJ\l-E-TlC, apt(Jf'0r, arithm~s, and TIK1], like, a contr'action
of 'UXII1J, techne, an art, a number. The
science of numbers. - Arithmo-meter. "A French
.artist has lately obtained a patent for a machine so·
caIled. A person unacquainted with figures may,
by. this machine, be made to perform all the rules of
arithmetic. The most complicated calculations are
done as readily and exactly as the most ·simple; and
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