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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
The poet's bays and critic's ivy grow."-POPE.

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,
foul, &c. Allowable rhymes, bowl, soul, hole, goal, dull, gull, &c.
See OLE.

OWN.

Brown, town, clown, crown, down, drown, frown, gown, adown,
renown, embrown, &c. Perfect rhyme, noun. Allowable rhymes,
tone, bone, moan, own, and the participles thrown, shown, blown,
&c. See ONE.

"Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own,
But catch the spreading notion of the town."-POPE.
"'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”—POPE.

OWSE, see OUSE.

OWZE.

Blowze. Perfect rhymes, browse, trouse, rouse, spouse, carouse,
rouse, espouse, the verbs to house, mouse, &c., and the plurals of
nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in ow, as
brows, allows, &c. Allowable rhymes, hose, those, to dose, &c.

OX.

Ox, box, fox, equinox, orthodox, heterodox, &c. Perfect rhymes,
the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs
in ock, as locks, stocks, &c. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns
and third persons singular present tense of verbs in oke, oak, and uck,
as strokes, cloaks, sucks, &c.

ΟΥ.

Boy, buoy, coy, employ, cloy, joy, toy, alloy, annoy, convoy, decoy,
destroy, enjoy, employ.

OZE, see OSE.

U

UB.

Cub, club, dub, chub, drub, grub, rub, snub, shrub, tub. Allow-
able rhymes, cube, tube, cob, rob, &c.

UBE.

Cube, tube. Allowable rhymes, club, cub, &c.

UCE.

Truce, sluce, spruce, deuce, conduce, deduce, induce, introduce,
produce, seduce, traduce, juice, reduce, &c., rhyme perfectly with the
nouns use, abuse, profuse, abstruse, disuse, excuse, misuse, obtuse,
recluse.

UCH, see UTCH.

UCK.

Buck, luck, pluck, suck, struck, tuck, truck, duck. Allowable
rhymes, puke, duke, look, took, &c.

UCT.

Conduct, deduct, instruct, obstruct, aqueduct. Perfect rhymes, the
preterites and participles of verbs in uck, as ducked, sucked, &c.
Allowable rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in uke and
ook, as puked, hooked, &c.

UD.

Bud, scud, stud, mud, cud, rhyme perfectly with blood and flood.
Allowable rhymes, good, hood, rood, food, beatitude, latitude, &c.

UDE.

Rude, crude, prude, allude, conclude, delude, elude, exclude, exude,
include, intrude, obtrude, seclude, altitude, fortitude, gratitude, inter-
lude, latitude, longitude, magnitude, multitude, solicitude, solitude,
vicissitude, aptitude, habitude, ingratitude, inaptitude, lassitude, ple-
nitude, promptitude, servitude, similitude, &c. Perfect rhymes, lewd,
feud, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in ew, as stewed,
viewed, &c. Allowable rhymes, bud, cud, good, hood, blood, &c.

UDGE.

Judge, drudge, grudge, trudge, adjudge, prejudge.

UE, see EW.

UFF.

Buff, cuff, bluff, huff, gruff, luff, puff, snuff, stuff, ruff, rebuff, coun-
terbuff, &c. Perfect rhymes, rough, tough, enough, slough (cast
skin), chough, &c. Allowable rhymes, loaf, oaf, &c.

UFT.

Tuft. Perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in
uff, as cuffed, stuffed, &c.

UG.

Lug, bug, dug, drug, hug, rug, slug, snug, mug, shrug, pug. Allow-
able rhymes, vogue, rogue, &c.

UICE, see USE. UIDE, see IDE. UILD, see ILD. UILT, see
ILT. UINT, see INT. UISE, see ISE and USE. UIE, see IE.

UKE.

Duke, puke, rebuke, &c. Nearly perfect rhymes, cook, look, book,
&c. Allowable rhymes, duck, buck, &c.

“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.
Allowable rhymes, fool, tool, wool, bull, pull, full, bountiful, fanciful,
sorrowful, dutiful, merciful, wonderful, worshipful, and every word
ending in ful, having the accent on the antepenultimate syllable.
"Some lucky license answer to the full

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.
Allowable rhymes, colt, bolt, &c.

UM.

Crum, drum, grum, gum, hum, mum, scum, plum, stum, sum,
swum, thrum. Perfect rhymes, thumb, dumb, succumb, come, be-
come, overcome, burdensome, cumbersome, frolicsome, humoursome,
quarrelsome, troublesome, martyrdom, Christendom. Allowable
rhymes, fume, plume, rheum, and room, doom, tomb, hecatomb.

UME.

Fume, plume, assume, consume, perfume, resume, presume, de-
plume.

UMP.

Bump, pump, jump, lump, plump, rump, stump, trump, thump.
Pertect rhyme, clomp.

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.

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