— rhymer , n.
/ruym/ , n. , v. , rhymed, rhyming .
n.
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).
6. rhyme or reason , logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
v.t.
7. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
8. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
9. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
v.i.
10. to make rhyme or verse; versify.
11. to use rhyme in writing verse.
12. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
13. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.
Also, rime .
[ 1250-1300; ME rime rimer to rhyme rimare to put in a row rim series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word ]