Associations to the word «Acrostic»

Wiktionary

ACROSTIC, noun. A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
ACROSTIC, noun. A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Dictionary definition

ACROSTIC, noun. A puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across.
ACROSTIC, noun. Verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras