Metrical beat

• Stroke cut wildly is making the boundary
• Rhythmical stress
• Losing face, grimace in stress
• Stress
• Recurring metrical beat
• Grimace when run's abandoned, having stress in foot

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

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.)).

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