n.
- writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
▸archaic a line of poetry.
- a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song.
- each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.
- a versicle.
▸a passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices.
v.
archaic speak in or compose verse.
Derivative
Etymology
OE fers, from L. versus ‘a turn of the plough, a furrow, a line of writing’, from vertere ‘to turn’; reinforced in ME by OFr. vers.