Losing face, grimace in stress

• Stroke cut wildly is making the boundary
• Rhythmical stress
• Metrical stress, in poetry
• Stress
• Grimace when run's abandoned, having stress in foot
• Metrical beat

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease; "he suffered an epileptic seizure" [syn: seizure , raptus ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context rare English) (plural of ictus English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ictus \Ic"tus\, n. [L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike.] (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis . (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verse stress, 1752, from Latin ictus "a blow, stroke, thrust," of voices "a beat, impulse, stress," from icere "to strike, hit," related to iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)).