From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sapphic \Sap"phic\, adjective [L. Sapphicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? Sappho.]
1. Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.
2. (Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; -- said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sapphic \Sap"phic\, noun (Pros.) A Sapphic verse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: a meter used by Sappho and named after her
2: of female homosexuality [syn: {lesbian}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "sapphic": AC-DC, Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, amphierotic, autoerotic, bardic, bisexed, bisexual, bucolic, butch, deviant, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, effeminate, elegiac, epic, gay, heroic, homoerotic, homosexual, idyllic, lesbian, mannish, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, perverted, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, queer, rhapsodic, runic, skaldic, transvestite, tribadistic
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