Sonnet /(?)/

Son·net

Sonnet

n.
  1. A short poem, -- usually amatory. [Obs.]
    He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.
  2. A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule.

Sonnet

v. i.
  1. To compose sonnets.