rhymer, rymer

[Eng. rhym(e); -er.] One who writes rimes; a rhymester, a versifier. making rimes.' rhymer-ỹ, s. [Eng. rhyme; -ry.] The act of rhymester, *rhym-stër, subst . [Eng. rhyme; -ster .] One who writes rimes; a poor or mean poet. "Nay, more, though all my rival rhymesters frown, I, too, can hunt a poetaster down." Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. rhym-ic, a. [Eng.rhym(e); -ic.] Of or pertain ing to rime. rhym'-Ist, s. [Eng. rhym(e); -ist.] A rhymester. "He was a good rhymist, but no poet."- Johnson: Life of Milton. *rhym-, *rhim-ỹ, adj . [Eng. rhym(e); -y.] Riming. (T. Brown: Works , iii. 39.) rhynch-, pref. [RHYNCHO-.] rhyn-che-a, s . [Gr. rhyngchos=a beak, a bill.] Ornith.: Painted Snipes; a genus of Numeniine, with four species, from the Ethiopian and Oriental regions, Australia, and temperate South America. The females are more richly colored than the males, having the lores, sides of face, and neck chest nut. There is reason to believe that the male of Khynchœa benga lens is undertakes the duty of incubation. ( Ibis , 1866, p. 298.) rhyn-che-ta, subst. [Pref. rhyn ( ch )-, and Gr. chaite long, flowing hair.] Zool.: A genus of Tentaculifera Suctoria, with a single species, Rhyncheta cyclopum , parasitic on Cyclops coronata . ichthys a fish.] *rhynch-ich-thys, s. [Pref. rhynch- , and Greck Ichthy.: A genus of Berycide, erected for the reception of forms now known to be the young of Holocentrum. They differ from the adult fish in having the upper part of the snout pointed and elongate.