Ode
Ode (ōd) , noun
[French, from Latin ode, oda, Greek 'w,dh` a song, especially a lyric song, contr. from 'aoidh`, from 'aei`dein to sing; compare Sanskrit vad to speak, sing. Compare Comedy, Melody, Monody.]
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles.
O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet.
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Ode factor , one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.