■ noun
1》 writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
↘ archaic a line of poetry.
2》 a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song.
3》 each of the short numbered divisions of a chapter in the Bible or other scripture.
4》 a versicle.
↘a passage in an anthem for a soloist or a small group of voices.
■ verb archaic speak in or compose ~.
Derivatives
~let noun
Origin
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 .