participles of verbs in ope, upe, oop, and up, as coped, duped, hooped, cupped, &c. OR. Or, for, creditor, counsellor, confessor, competitor, emperor, ancestor, ambassador, progenitor, conspirator, successor, conqueror, governor, abhor, metaphor, bachelor, senator, &c., and every word in or having the accent on the last, or last syllable but two, as abhor, orator, &c. Allowable rhymes, bore, tore, boar, hoar, pure, endure, pur, demur, stir, sir, &c. ORCH. Scorch, torch, &c. Allowable rhymes, birch, smirch, church, porch, &c. ORCE. Force, divorce, enforce, perforce, &c. Perfect rhymes, corse, coarse, hoarse, course, discourse, recourse, intercourse, source, resource, &c. Allowable rhymes, worse, purse, horse, endorse, &c. ORD. Cord, lord, record, accord, abhorr'd. Allowable rhymes, hoard, board, aboard, ford, afford, sword, word, surd, bird, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in ore, ur, and ir, as bored, incurred, stirred, &c. "A constant critic at the great man's board, "Yet miss'd, so narrow that he cut the cord, Which fasten'd by the feet the flitting bird."-Dryden. ORE. Bore, core, gore, lore, more, ore, pore, score, shore, snore, sore, store, swore, tore, wore, adore, afore, ashore, deplore, explore, implore, restore, forebore, foreswore, heretofore, hellebore, sycamore. Perfect rhymes, boar, goar, oar, roar, soar, four, door, floor, and o'er, for over. Allowable rhymes, hour, sour, &c.; pow'r, for power; show'r, for shower, &c.; bur, cur, poor, your, abhor, orator, senator, &c. See OOR and OR. "First robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic pow'rs."-POPE. ORGE. Gorge, disgorge, re-gorge, &c. Allowable rhymes, forge, urge, dirge, &c. ORK. Ork, cork, fork, stork, &c. Allowable rhymes, pork, work. ORLD. World, rhymes perfectly with the preterites and participles of verbs in url, as hurled, curled, &c. ORM. Form, storm, conform, deform, inform, perform, reform, misinform, uniform, multiform, transform. Allowable rhymes, form (a seat) and worm. See ARM. ORN, rhyming with HORN. Born, corn, morn, horn, scorn, thorn, adorn, suborn, unicorn, capricorn. Allowable rhymes, the participles borne (suffered), shorn, &c., the verb mourn, the nouns urn, turn, &c. ORN, rhyming with MOURN. Born, shorn, torn, worn, lorn, forlorn, lovelorn, sworn, foresworn, overborne, foreborne. Perfect rhyme, mourn. Allowable rhymes, born, corn, urn, turn, &c. ORSE. Horse, endorse, unhorse. Allowable rhymes, worse, curse, remorse, coarse, course, corse, &c. See ORCE. "The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true metal when you check his course.”—POPE. ORST, see URST., ORT, rhyming with WART, Short, sort, exhort, consort, distort, extort, resort, retort, snort. Allowable rhymes, fort, port, court, report, dirt, shirt, wort, hurt, &c. See ART. "For different styles with different subjects sort, As different garbs with country, town, and court."-POPE. ORT, rhyming with COURT. Fort, port, sport, comport, disport, export, import, support, transport, report. Allowable rhymes, short, sort, dirt, hurt, &c. ORTH. Forth, fourth. Allowable rhymes, north, worth, birth, earth, &c. "In form of battle drawn, they issue forth, And every knight is proud to prove his worth."-DRYDEN. Close, dose, jocose. OSE, sounding OCE. Perfect rhymes, morose, gross, engross, ver bose. Allowable rhymes, moss, cross, us, thus, &c. "Shall only man be taken in the gross ? Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss."-POPE. OSE, sounding OZE. Close, dose, hose, pose, chose, glose, froze, nose, prose, those, rose, compose, depose, disclose, dispose, discompose, expose, impose, enclose, interpose, oppose, propose, recompose, repose, suppose, transpose, arose, presuppose, foreclose, &c., and the plurals of nouns and apostrophised preterites and participles of verbs in ow, oe, o, &c., as rows, glows, foes, goes, &c. Allowable rhymes, the verbs choose, loose, &c., and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in ow, rhyming with now, as cows, and the word buzz. "Green wreaths of bays his length of hair enclose, A golden fillet binds his awful brows."-DRYDEN. OSS. Allowable Boss, loss, cross, dross, moss, loss, across, emboss. rhymes, the nouns close, dose, jocose, &c., and us, thus, &c. OST. Cost, frost, lost, accost, &c., and the preterites and participles of words in oss, as mossed, embossed, &c., the verb exhaust, and the noun holocaust. Allowable rhymes, ghost, host, post, compost, most, coast, boast, toast, bust, must, roost, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in oose, as loosed, &c. "Now length of fame (our second life) is lost, And bare threescore is all e'en that can boast."-POPE. от. Clot, cot, blot, got, hot, jot, lot, knot, not, plot, pot, scot, shot, sot, spot, apricot, trot, rot, grot, begot, forgot, allot, besot, complot, counterplot. Allowable rhymes, note, vote, boat, coat, but, cut, &c. See AT. OTCH. Botch, notch, &c. Perfect rhyme, watch. much, such, &c. OTE. Allowable rhymes, Note, vote, mote, quote, rote, wrote, smote, denote, promote, remote, devote, anecdote, antidote, &c. Perfect rhymes, boat, coat, bloat, doat, float, gloat, goat, oat, overfloat, afloat, throat, moat. Allowable rhymes, bout, flout, hot, cot, but, cut, boot, hoot, &c. отн. Broth, cloth, froth, moth, troth, betrothe. Perfect rhyme, wrath. Allowable rhymes, both, loth, sloth, oath, growth, forsooth, the noun mouth, and the solemn auxiliary doth, to which some poets add loathe, and clothe. See OOTH. OU, see OO and OW. OUBT, see OUT. OUCH. Couch, pouch, vouch, slouch, avouch, crouch. Allowable rhymes, much, such, coach, roach, &c. OUD. Shroud, cloud, loud, proud, aloud, crowd, o'ershroud, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in ow, as he bowed, vowed, &c. Allowable rhymes, blood, flood, bud, mud, &c. OVE. Wove, inwove, interwove, alcove, clove, grove, rove, stove, strove, throve, drove. Allowable rhymes, dove, love, shove, glove, above, move, behove, approve, disprove, disapprove, improve, groove, prove, reprove, &c. "Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When through the clouds he drives the trembling doves."-POPE. "Till the freed Indians in their native groves Reap their own fruits, and woo their sable loves."-POPE. "But dulness with obscenity must prove As shameful, sure, as impotence in love."-POPE. OUGH, see OFF, OW, and UFF. OUGHT. Bought, thought, ought, brought, forethought, fought, nought, sought, wrought, besought, bethought, methought, &c. Perfect rhymes, aught, naught, caught, taught, &c., and sometimes draught. Allowable rhymes, not, yacht, note, vote, but, hut, hoot, root, &c. "Just to thy fame he gives thy genuine thought; OUL, see OLE and OWL. OULD. Mould. Perfect rhymes, fold, old, cold, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in owl, oll, and ole, as bowled, tolled, cajoled, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in ull, as gulled, pulled, &c. OUNCE. Bounce, flounce, renounce, pounce, ounce, denounce, pronounce. OUND. Bound, found, mound, ground, hound, pound, round, sound, wound, abound, aground, around, confound, compound, expound, profound, rebound, resound, propound, surround, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in own, as frowned, renowned, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in one, oan, and un, as toned, moaned, sunned, &c., consequently fund, refund, &c., and wound (a hurt), pronounced woond. OUNG, see UNG.. OUNT. Count, mount, fount, amount, dismount, remount, surmount, ac-count, discount, miscount, account. Allowable rhymes, want, font, don't, wont, &c. OUP, see OOP: OUR. Hour, lour, sour, our, scour, deflour, devour, &c., rhyme perfectly with bower, cower, flower, power, shower, tower, &c., pronounced bow'r, tow'r, &c. Allowable rhymes, bore, more, roar, pour, tour, poor, moor, pure, sure, sir, stir, bur, cur, &c. "She's deaf to beauty's soft persuasive pow'r, Nor can bright Hebe's charms her bloom secure."—GARTH. 'OURGE, see URGE. OURN, see ORN and URN. OURS. Ours, rhymes perfectly with the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in our and ower, as hours, scours, deflours, bowers, showers, &c. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in oor and ure, as boors, moors, cures, endures, &c. OURS. Yours, rhymes perfectly with the plurals of nouns and third per |