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Ormulum, 1. 11248. 2. Thought expre ed in verse; verse; meter; poetry; also, a composition in verse; a poem, especially a short one; a tale in verse. Horn sede on his rime : "I ble ed beo the time I com to Suddenne With mine iri e men." King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 39. Other tale certes can I noon, But of a ryme I lerned longe agoon. Chaucer , Prol. to Sir Thopas, 1. 19. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . Milton , P. L., i. 16. 3. Agreement in the terminal sounds of two or more words, namely in the last accented vowel and the sounds following, if there be any, while the sounds preceding differ; also, by extension, such agreement in the initial sounds ( initial rime , usually called alliteration ). See homœote leuton, and compare a onance .