See Also: landlubber(medicine)
landlubber(dictionary)
landlubber(dictionary)

versify (iou) and landlubber (iou)


versify (iou)



versify verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French versifier from Latin versificare, from versus: see VERSE noun, -FY.]
verb intrans. Compose verse; write poetry. LME.
verb trans. Narrate, recount, or treat in verse. LME.
Goldsmith The silly poet runs Home to versify the disaster.
verb trans. Turn (prose) into verse; translate, rewrite, or express in verse. M18.
versifier noun a person who versifies; spec. a writer of poor verse, a poetaster: ME.

landlubber (iou)



landlubber noun. L17.
[from LAND noun1 + LUBBER.]
A person with little or no experience of the sea or sailing; a person who lives on land.
landlubberly adjective characteristic of a landlubber M19.