1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
2.
a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
b. Poetry or verse of this kind.
3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.
v. rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing also rim·ing, rhymes also rimes
v.intr.
1. To form a rhyme.
2. To compose rhymes or verse.
3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.
v.tr.
1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.
2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.
ex-Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
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