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A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.

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  1. n. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
  2. n. a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., ‘remember’)
  3. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.
  4. A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first andlast short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes theplace of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.
  5. n a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')