Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
rime , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
rhyme .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
rhyme .
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Examples
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You have allso dresst Wake's Oak in rhime, And if you go any further in personal compliments to your H. S.
Letter 216 2009
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I chose to do it in rhime for this reason; because I found allways that when I put two or three lines together in blank verse, or something that sounded like it, it was a great chance if it stood right when it came to be wrote down, for blank verse have ten syllables in a line, and this particular I could not adjust, nor bear in memory as I could rhimes.
Letter 10 2009
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You had made hope & yoke rhime, which is intolerable.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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I mean to have the pleasure of exhibiting to you and them my whole triple-page'd Journal, Drawings, prose, and rhime.
Letter 216 2009
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I shall keep a [word deleted] journal both in prose and in rhime, which shall give us some amusement on my return.
Letter 212 2009
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Makz much luv – not war pb- you iz 2 gineruss an wunnerful 2 – but not as ez to rhime *giglol*
Camoflauge Bunneh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Such rarae aves should be remitted to the epitaph writer, or to some poet who may condescend to hitch him in a distich, or to slide him into a rhime with an air of carelessness and neglect, without giving any offence to the reader.
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But, lest you should think there is neither rhime nor reason in protracting this tedious epistle, I shall conclude it with the old burden of my song, that I am always — Your affectionate humble servant.
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I wish to be informed to what "foolish rhime," which had been printed in Oxford and London, it applies?
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[His other poems are but briefs in rhime, and like the poor Greeks collections to redeem from captivity.]
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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