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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rhyme \Rhyme\, n. [OE. ryme, rime, AS r[=i]m number; akin to OHG. r[=i]m number, succession, series, G. reim rhyme. The modern sense is due to the influence of F. rime, which is of German origin, and originally the same word.] [The Old English spelling {rime} is becoming again common. See Note under {Prime}.] 1. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. ``Railing rhymes.'' --Daniel. A ryme I learned long ago. --Chaucer. He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. --Milton. 2. (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense --Prior. 3. Verses, usually two having this correspondence with each other a couplet; a poem containing rhymes. 4. A word answering in sound to another word {Female rhyme}. See under {Female}. {Male rhyme}. See under {Male}. {Rhyme or reason}, sound or sense {Rhyme royal} (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third the second fourth and fifth and the sixth and seventh rhyme. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rimed}; p. pr & vb n. {Riming}.] To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A step or round of a ladder; a rung. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, n. Rhyme. See {Rhyme}. --Coleridge. --Landor. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, v. i. & t. To rhyme. See {Rhyme}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, n. [L. rima.] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. --Sir T. Browne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rime \Rime\, n. [AS. hr[=i]m; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hr[=i]m, Dan. rim, Sw rim; cf D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. r[=i]fo, hr[=i]fo.] White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. --De Quincey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rime n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: {frost}, {hoar}, {hoarfrost}] 2: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (esp. final sounds) [syn: {rhyme}] v : compose rhymes [syn: {rhyme}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: RIME Relaynet International Message Exchange From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."
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