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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A line of verse.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of stitch.
  • noun A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
  • noun A line in the Scriptures.
  • noun A row or rank, as of trees.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.
  • noun A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.
  • noun A row, line, or rank of trees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of the Scriptures.
  • noun obsolete A row, line, or rank of trees.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek stikhos; see steigh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek στίχος (stikhos, "line, row, verse"). Akin to στείχω (steikhō, "I go").

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