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rim, tale, MD. a great number), rijm , rijme , D. rijm = MLG. rim , LG. riem , rim , series, row, MHG. rim , verse, rime, G. reim , rime, = OHG. rim , erroneously krim , number, rime, rhimp , rhimyn , a rim, edge, rhimpyn , an extrem- ity, is appar. from the E.] 1. The border, edge, or margin of anything, whether forming part of the thing itself, or separate from it and sur- Icel. rim , also rima = Sw. Dan. rim, rounding or partly surrounding it, most com- rime; hence ( rim , rima = OCat. rim = Sp. Pg. It. rima (ML. monly a circular border, often raised above rima ), verse, rime. The sense of 'poetic num- the inclosed surface: as, the rim of a hat. ber,' whence 'verse,' ""a tale in verse, 'a The moon lifting her silver rim ment of terminal sounds,' seems to have arisen Above a cloud, and with a gradual swim Coming into the blue with all her light. in Rom., this meaning, with the thing itself, Keats , I stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill. being unknown to the earlier Teut. tongues. 'agree They ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In the next line it "whispers through the trees.' Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 349. Caudate rime, rime at the end of succe ive lines: op posed to leonine (which see) or other rime between the ends of sections of the same line. Also tailed rime.Female or feminine rimes. See female .-Male or masculine rimes. See malel . - Neither rime nor reason, neither consistency nor rational meaning; neither sound nor sense; hence, with no mitigating feature or ex cuse. The phrase occurs under various forms, and espe cially in plays upon words. I would exhorte you also to beware of rime without reds on: my meaning is hereby that your rime leade you not from your firste Inuention. Gas coigne, Notes on Eng. Verse (ed. Arber), § 6. I was prom is'd on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason .