sons singular present tense of verbs in ure, as cures, endures, &c. Allowable rhyme, ours, and its perfect rhymes, and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in oor, ore, and ur, as boors, moors, shores, pores, burs, slurs, stirs, &c. OURSE, see ORCE. OURT, see ORT. OURTH, see ORTH. OUS, see US. OUS, pronounced OUCE House, mouse, chouse, &c. Allowable rhymes, the nouns close, dose, jocose, duce, use, produce, us, thus, moose, &c., and the noun noose. OUSE, pronounced OUZE, see OWZE. OUT. Bout, stout, out, clout, pout, gout, grout, rout, scout, shout, snout, spout, stout, sprout, trout, about, devout, without, throughout, &c., rhymes perfectly with doubt, redoubt, misdoubt, drought, &c. Allowable rhymes, note, vote, boat, coat, lute, suit, got, not, nut, shut, hoot, boot, &c. "Sweet honey some condense, some purge the grout, The rest in cells apart the liquid nectar shut."-Dryden. OUTH. Mouth, south, when nouns have the th sharp. The verbs to mouth, to south, &c., may allowably rhyme with booth, smooth, &c. which see. OW, sounding OU. Now, bow, how, mow, cow, brow, sow, vow, prow, avow, allow, disallow, endow, &c. Perfect rhymes, bough, plough, slough (mire), thou, &c. Allowable rhymes, go, no, blow, sow, &c. "Immortal Vida, on whose honoured brow OW, sounding OWE. Blow, stow, crow, bow, flow, glow, grow, know, low, mow, row, show, sow, strow, stow, slow, snow, throw, trow, below, bestow, foreknow, outgrow, overgrow, overflow, overthrow, reflow, foreshow, &c. Perfect rhymes, go, no, toe, foe, owe, wo, oh, so, lo, though, hoe, ho, ago, forego, undergo, dough, roe, sloe, and the verb to sew (with a needle). Allowable rhymes, now, cow, vow, do, &c. See the last article. OWL. Cowl, growl, owl, fowl, howl, prowl, &c. Perfect rhymes, scowl, OWN. Brown, town, clown, crown, down, drown, frown, gown, adown, "Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own, OWSE, see OUSE. OWZE. Blowze. Perfect rhymes, browse, trouse, rouse, spouse, carouse, OX. Ox, box, fox, equinox, orthodox, heterodox, &c. Perfect rhymes, ΟΥ. Boy, buoy, coy, employ, cloy, joy, toy, alloy, annoy, convoy, decoy, OZE, see OSE. U UB. Cub, club, dub, chub, drub, grub, rub, snub, shrub, tub. Allow- UBE. Cube, tube. Allowable rhymes, club, cub, &c. UCE. Truce, sluce, spruce, deuce, conduce, deduce, induce, introduce, UCH, see UTCH. UCK. Buck, luck, pluck, suck, struck, tuck, truck, duck. Allowable UCT. Conduct, deduct, instruct, obstruct, aqueduct. Perfect rhymes, the UD. Bud, scud, stud, mud, cud, rhyme perfectly with blood and flood. UDE. Rude, crude, prude, allude, conclude, delude, elude, exclude, exude, UDGE. Judge, drudge, grudge, trudge, adjudge, prejudge. UE, see EW. UFF. Buff, cuff, bluff, huff, gruff, luff, puff, snuff, stuff, ruff, rebuff, coun- UFT. Tuft. Perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in UG. Lug, bug, dug, drug, hug, rug, slug, snug, mug, shrug, pug. Allow- UICE, see USE. UIDE, see IDE. UILD, see ILD. UILT, see UKE. Duke, puke, rebuke, &c. Nearly perfect rhymes, cook, look, book, “Alternate each th' attesting sceptre took, And rising solemn each his sentence spoke."-POPE. UL, and ULL. Cull, dull, gull, hull, lull, mull, null, trull, skull, annul, disannul. Th' intent proposed, that license is a rule."-POPE. ULE. Mule, pule, yule, rule, overrule, ridicule, misrule. Allowable rhymes, cull, dull, wool, full, bountiful, &c. See the last article. ULGE. Bulge, indulge, divulge, &c. ULK. Bulk, hulk, skulk. ULSE. Pulse, repulse, impulse, expulse, convulse. ULT. Result, adult, exult, consult, indult, occult, insult, difficult, &c. UM. Crum, drum, grum, gum, hum, mum, scum, plum, stum, sum, UME. Fume, plume, assume, consume, perfume, resume, presume, de- UMP. Bump, pump, jump, lump, plump, rump, stump, trump, thump. UN. Dun, gun, nun, pun, run, sun, shun, tun, stun, spun, begun. Perfect rhymes, son, won, ton, done, one, none, undone. Allowable rhymes, on, gone, tune, prune, &c. See ON. UNCE. Dunce, once, &c. Allowable rhyme, sconce. UNCH. Bunch, punch, hunch, lunch, munch. UND. Fund, refund. Perfect rhymes, the preterites of verbs in un, as shunned, &c. UNE. June, tune, untune, jejune, prune, importune, &c. Nearly perfect rhymes, moon, soon, &c. Allowable rhymes, bun, dun, &c. UNG. Clung, dung, flung, hung, rung, strung, sung, sprung, slung, stung, swung, wrung, unsung. Perfect rhymes, young, tongue, among. Allowable rhymes, song, long, &c. UNGE. Plunge, spunge, expunge, &c. UNK. Drunk, sunk, shrunk, stunk, spunk, punk, trunk, slunk. Perfect rhyme, monk. UNT. Brunt, blunt, hunt, runt, grunt. Perfect rhyme, wont (to be accustomed.) UP. Cup, sup, up. Allowable rhymes, cope, sope, dupe, groupe, &c. UPT. Abrupt, corrupt, interrupt. Perfect rhymes, the participles of verbs in up, as supped, &c. UR. Blur, cur, bur, fur, slur, spur, concur, demur, incur. Perfect rhymes, sir, stir. Nearly perfect rhyme, fir, &c. Allowable rhymes, pore, oar, &c. |