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rhymer

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rhyme

  [rahym] noun, verb, rhymed, rhym⋅ing.
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–noun
1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
5. verse (def. 4).
–verb (used with object)
6. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
7. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
8. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
–verb (used without object)
9. to make rhyme or verse; versify.
10. to use rhyme in writing verse.
11. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
12. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.
—Idiom
13. rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Also, rime.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME rime < OF, deriv. of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row ≪ OHG rīm series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word

Related forms:
rhymer, noun
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rhym·er also rim·er   (rī'mər)   
n.  One who composes rhymes.
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Cultural Dictionary

rhyme

A similarity of sound between words, such as moon, spoon, croon, tune, and June. Rhyme is often employed in verse.

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Word Origin & History

rhyme  (n.)
"agreement in terminal sounds," 1565, partially restored spelling, from M.E. ryme, rime (c.1200) "measure, meter, rhythm," later "rhymed verse," from O.Fr. rime (fem.), related to O.Prov. rim (masc.), earlier *ritme, from L. rithmus, from Gk. rhythmos "measured motion, time, proportion" (see rhythm).
"In MedL. rithmus was used of accentual, as opposed to quantitative, verse, and, as accentual verse was usually rhymed, the word acquired the meaning which it has in all the Rom[anic]. and Teut[onic] langs." [Weekley]
Persistence of older form is due to popular association with O.E. rim "number," from PIE base *re(i)- "to reason, count." The verb is first attested 1672 (of words), "to have the same end sound;" 1697 (of poets), "to make rhymes." Phrase rhyme or reason "good sense" (chiefly used in the negative) is from 1664. Rhyme royal (1841) is a stanza of seven 10-syllable lines rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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