Usually means: Unstressed, light part of rhythm.
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  1. arsis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. arsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Arsis, arsis: Wiktionary
  7. arsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Arsis, arsis: Dictionary.com
  10. Arsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Arsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. arsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. arsis: Free Dictionary
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  16. Arsis: Wordnik
  17. arsis: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. ARSIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. arsis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Arsis)

noun:  Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
noun:  (music) The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.
noun:  (poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.
noun:  (music) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.
noun:  The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

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