Iambic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A verse composed of iambic feet.

II. Iambic ·noun An iambic foot; an Iambus.

III. Iambic ·noun A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

IV. Iambic ·adj Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. ·see Lambus.

V. Iambic ·adj Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.