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Rhyming

Rhyme \Rhyme\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhymed;p. pr. & vb. n. Rhyming.] [OE. rimen, rymen, AS. r[=i]man to count: cf. F. rimer to rhyme. See Rhyme, n.]

  1. To make rhymes, or verses. ``Thou shalt no longer ryme.''
    --Chaucer.

    There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
    --Pope.

  2. To accord in rhyme or sound.

    And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.
    --Dryden.

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rhyming

n. rhyme vb. (present participle of rhyme English)

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rhyming

adj. having corrnesponding sounds especially terminal sounds; "rhymed verse"; "rhyming words" [syn: rhymed, riming] [ant: unrhymed]

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Usage examples of "rhyming".

For all that, Marvell has excelled himself with his verse though I have chid him for some ugly rhyming and the childlike brickbats it does cast against the art of painting.

This flagitious attack upon the dignity of the knight so incensed him that he applied to a lawyer at Warwick to put the severity of the laws in force against the rhyming deer-stalker.

I do sing better than methought possible, and my rhyming is none so ill!

I am dead, You have the simple rhymings of two hearts, And if you think it best, the world may know A love-tale crowned by purest SACRIFICE.

And laying his hands on the sandpile, he whispered a rhyming enchantment that went on and on.

One of the gages on the panel was a very strange one, for it seemed to be displaying pairs of rhyming words, and it was very important that Lars understand what this meant, and he could not.

The wearied Gestours, when by rhyming stumped, Into plain prose quite often jumped.

Some of the men supposedly in cerol shock from Tane attacks had been captured by the Mil. Frantic appeals, like the case of the rhyming trader, had been put down to the ever-mounting toll of mental health.

Such poems are a kind of rhyming proverb, and it is a fact that definitely popular poetry is usually gnomic or sententious.

We have rhyming dictionaries,--let us have one from which all rhymes are rigorously excluded.

Or where this is broken, as in ym/in, we have recognition of the fact that m/n, though technically made at different contact points, have in their nasality and resonance a similarity which overrides the more mechanical distinction - a fact which is reflected, shall we say, both in the case of m/n interchange in real languages (such as Greek), or in my inability to feel greatly wounded by m/n assonances in a rhyming poem.

I stitched each individual's forehead with explosive bullets, "pops" of cartridges exploding rhyming with "plops" of braincases bursting.

Terran ballads mixed with Liaden chorales mixed with bawdy spacing songs mixed with other things the like of which she'd never heard mixed with scraps of see-sawing notes that sounded like the melodies of children's rhyming games.

Among other presents Clara had sent Heidi a book which the latter had decided, in bed the night before, would serve capitally for teaching Peter, for it was an A B C book with rhyming lines.

The satirist had switched to alliterative verse, which Nafai thought sounded a little more natural than rhyming, but it wasn’.