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Female rhymes
Female rhymes Female rhymes (Pros.), double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree (strain, complain) is called a male rhyme; one in which the two final syllables of each verse agree, the last being short (motion, ocean), is called female. --Brande & C. -- Female screw, the spiral-threaded cavity into which another, or male, screw turns. --Nicholson.
Female rhyme
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.

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- without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is...
- The construction of rhyming slang involves replacing a common word with a phrase of two or more words, the last of which rhymes with the original word;...
- Wounded Rhymes is the second studio album by Swedish singer and songwriter Lykke Li. It was released on 25 February 2011 by LL Recordings and Atlantic...
- ISBN 0-8264-1778-7, p. 561. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, OUP 1997, pp.265-7 National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs, London 1871, pp.2-3 L. Turco, The...
- with historical female figures who have had large families, although King George II (1683–1760) has also been proposed as the rhyme's subject. The most...
- album, Youth Novels, was released in 2008, and has been followed by Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So ****y (2018), and Eyeye (2022). She...
- section with consistently rhyming words), internal rhymes, [and] offbeat rhymes". There is also widespread use of multisyllabic rhymes. It has been noted that...
- representation of Indigenous female characters. "Rhymes for Young Ghouls". TIFF. Retrieved 27 August 2013. "Box Office, Rhymes for Young Ghouls". IMDb. Retrieved...
- You Want" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes and singer Mariah Carey, featuring verses from Rhymes' group Flipmode Squad: Spliff Star, Baby Sham...
- (Mary Stuart), were contemporaries in the 16th century. Like many nursery rhymes, it has acquired various historical explanations. One theory is that it...