Rime is the rhythmical repetition of letters

Nations who unite arsis and prose accent need to mark off their verses plainly. They do it by rime. Other nations shun rime. When the riming letters begin their words, it is called alliteration. When the accented vowels and the following letters are alike, it is called perfect rime. When only the consonants are alike, it is called half rime. F. A. March, Anglo-Sax. Gram., p. 223. The clock-work tintinnabulum of rhyme. Cowper, Table-Talk, 1. 529. 4. A verse or line agreeing with another in terminal sounds: as, to string rimes together. The rhymes are dazzled from their place, And order'd words asunder fly. Tennyson , The Day-Dream, Prol. We may not affirm that ruptures are confinable unto one side; whereas the peritoneum or rim of the belly may be broke, or its perforations relaxed in either. Sir T. Browne , Vulg. Err., iv. 3. Struck through the belly's rim , the warrior lies Supine, and shades eternal veil his eyes. Pope , Iliad, xiv. 521. rima (rī'ma), n .; pl. rimæ (-mē). [ rima , a crack, cleft, opening: see rime6 .] 1. In biol ., an opening, as a fi ure or cleft; a long or narrow aperture.-2. In conch ., the fi ure or aperture between the valves of a bivalve shell when the hymen is removed. Rima glottidis, the opening between the vocal cords in front and the arytenoid cartilages behind.- Rima glottidis cartilaginea, that part of the rima glottidis which lies between the arytenoid cartilages. Also called respiratory glottis . Rima or is, the orifice of the mouth; in ornith ., the rictus; the gape. See rictus . - Rima vocal is, that part of the rima glottidis which lies between the vocal cords. Also called rima glottidis membranacea and vocal glottis . rimbase (rim'bās), n . [ rim1 + base2 , n . ] In gun .: (a) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. (b) (b) The shoulder on the stock of a musket against which the breech of the barrel rests. rimel (rim), n. [Also and more commonly rhyme , a spelling first used, alternating with rhime, about the year 1550, and due to the erroneous notion that the word is identical with rhythm (indeed even the spellings rhythm and rhithm were sometimes used for the proper word rime ); prop. only rime , a spelling which has never become wholly obsolete and is now wide