AUD.

Fraud, laud, applaud, defraud. Perfect rhymes, broad, abroad, and the preterites and participles of verbs in aw, as gnawed, sawed, Allowable rhymes, odd, nod, ode, bode, &c., also the word

&c. load.

AVE.

Cave, brave, gave, grave, crave, lave, nave, knave, pave, rave, save, shave, slave, stave, wave, behave, deprave, engrave, outbrave, forgave, misgave, architrave. Allowable rhyme, the auxiliary verb have.

AUGH, see AFF. AUGHT, see OUGHT. AULT, see ALT. AUNCH.

Launch, paunch, haunch, staunch, &c.

Cause, pause, clause, applause, because. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in aw, as laws, he draws, &c. Allowable rhyme, was.

AUST, see OST.

AW.

Craw, daw, law, chaw, claw, draw, flaw, gnaw, jaw, maw, paw, raw, saw, straw, thaw, withdraw, foresaw.

AWD, see AUD. AWK, see ALK,

AWL.

Bawl, brawl, drawl, crawl, scrawl, sprawl, squawl.

Perfect

rhymes, ball, call, fall, gall, small, hall, pall, tall, wall, stall, install, forestall, thrall, inthrall.

AWN.

Dawn, brawn, fawn, pawn, spawn, drawn, yawn, lawn, withdrawn.

Ax, tax, wax, relax, flax. and third persons singular of

AX.

Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns verbs in ack, as backs, sacks, &c.; he

lacks, he packs, &c. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in ake, as cakes, lakes, &c.; he makes, he takes, &c.

AY.

Bray, clay, day, dray, tray, flay, fray, gay, hay, jay, lay, may, nay, pay, play, ray, say, way, pray, spray, slay, spay, stay, stray, sway, affray, allay, array, astray, away, belay, bewray, betray, decay, defray, delay, disarray, display, dismay, essay, forelay, gainsay, inlay, relay, repay, roundelay, virelay. Perfect rhymes, neigh, weigh, inveigh, &c., prey, they, convey, obey, purvey, survey, disobey, grey. Allowable rhymes, tea, sea, fee, see, glee, &c.

"Soft yielding minds to water glide away,

And sip with nymphs their elemental tea."-POPE. "Here thou great Anna, whom three realms obey.

Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea."-POPE.

AZE.

Perfect

Craze, draze, blaze, gaze, glaze, raze, maze, amaze, graze. rhymes, raise, praise, dispraise, phrase, paraphrase, &c., and the nouns plural and third persons singular of the present tense of verbs in ay, eigh, and ey; as days, he inveighs, he obeys, &c. Allowable rhymes, ease, tease, seize, &c., and keys, the plural of key; also the auxiliaries has and was.

"Yet still the kindness, from a thirst of praise,

Proved the vain flourish of expensive ease."-PARNELL.

E

E and EA, see EE. EACE, see EASE.

EACH.

Beach, breach, bleach, each, peach, preach, teach, impeach. Nearly perfect rhymes, beech, leech, speech, beseech. Allowable rhymes, fetch, wretch, &c.

EAD, see EDE and EED. EAF, see IEF.

EAGUE.

League, teague, &c. Perfect rhymes, intrigue, fatigue, &c. Allowable rhymes, Hague, vague, leg, beg, bag, rag, &c.

EAK, see AKE.

Beak, speak, bleak, creak, freak, leak, peak, sneak, squeak, streak,

weak, tweak, wreak, bespeak. Nearly perfect rhymes, cheek, leek, creek, meek, reek, seek, sleek, pique, week, shriek.

rhymes, beck, speck, lake, take, thick, lick, &c.

""Twere well might critics still this freedom take,

Allowable

But Appius reddens at each word you speak."-POPE.

EAL.

Deal, heal, reveal, meal, peal, seal, steal, teal, veal, weal, squeal, zeal, repeal, conceal, congeal, repeal, anneal, appeal. Nearly perfect rhymes, eel, heel, feel, keel, kneel, peel, reel, steel, wheel. Allowable rhymes, bell, tell, bale, tale, bill, fill, ail, fail, &c.

"Or, as Ixion fixed, the wretch shall feel

The giddy motion of the whirling mill."-POPE.
"This night his treasured heaps he means to steal,
And what a fund of charity would fail."-PARNELL.
"Did e'er my eye one inward thought reveal,

Which angels might not hear, and virgins tell."-PRIOR.

EALM, see ALM.

EALTH.

Health, wealth, stealth, commonwealth, &c.

EAM.

Bream, cream, gleam, seam, scream, stream, team, beam, dream. Perfect rhymes, phlegm, scheme, theme, blaspheme, extreme, suNearly perfect rhymes, deem, teem, beseem, misdeem, esteem, disesteem, redeem, seem, &c. Allowable rhymes, dame, lame, limb, him, them, hem, lamb, dam, &c. See AME.

preme.

"Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem,

To copy nature is to copy them."-POPE.

EAN.

Bean, clean, dean, glean, lean, mean, wean, yean, demean, unclean. Perfect rhymes, convene, demesne, intervene, mien. Nearly perfect rhymes, machine, keen, screen, seen, green, spleen, between, careen, foreseen, serene, obscene, terrene, queen, spleen, &c. Allowable rhymes, bane, mane, ban, man, bin, thin, begin, &c.

"A sordid god, down from his hoary chin,

A length of beard descends uncombed, unclean."-DRYDEN.

"The Graces stand behind, a satire train

Peeps o'er their head, and laughs behind the scene."-PARNELL.

EANS, see ENSE. EANT, see ENT. EAP, see EEP and EP. EAR, see EER.

Heard, herd, sherd, &c.

EARD.

Perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in er, as erred, preferred, &c. Allowable rhymes, beard, the preterites and participles of verbs in ere, ear, and ar, as revered, feared, barred.

EARCH.

Search, perch, research. Allowable rhymes, church, smirch, lurch, parch, march, &c.

EARL.

Earl, pearl. Perfect rhyme, girl, &c. Allowable rhymes, snarl, marl, churl, furl, &c.

EARN, see ERN. EARSE, see ERSE. EART, see ART.

EARTH.

Earth, dearth. Perfect rhymes, birth, mirth, &c. Allowable rhyme, hearth, &c.

EASE, sounded EACE.

Cease, lease, release, grease, decease, decrease, increase, release, surcease. Perfect rhyme, peace. Nearly perfect rhymes, piece, niece, fleece, geese, frontispiece, apiece, &c. Allowable rhymes, less, mess, lace, mace, miss, hiss, nice, vice, &c.

"Thus critics of less judgment than caprice,

Curious, not knowing, not exact, but nice."-POPE.

"Nor silence is within, nor voice express,

But a deaf noise of sounds that never cease." "-DRYDEN.

EASH, see ESH.

EAST.

East, feast, least, beast. Perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in ease, as ceased, increased, &c. Nearly perfect rhyme, priest. Allowable rhymes, haste, taste, best, chest, fist, list, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in ess and iss, as dressed, hissed, &c.

"Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest,

And falling acorns furnished out a feast."-DRyden.

"And sometimes casts an eye upon the east,

And sometimes looks on the forbidden west."-ADDISON.

EAT.

Bleat, eat, feat, heat, meat, neat, seat, treat, wheat, beat, cheat, defeat, estreat, escheat, entreat, retreat. Perfect rhymes, obsolete, replete, concrete, complete. Nearly perfect rhymes, feet, fleet, gleet, greet, meet, sheet, sleet, street, sweet, discreet. Allowable rhymes, bate, great, hate, get, net, bit, hit, &c.

"The soil improved around, the mansion neat,

And neither poorly low nor idly great."-PARNELL.

"Through Ætna's jaws he impudently threats,

And thundering Heaven with equal thunder beats."-CREECH.

EATH.

Breath, death, &c. Allowable rhymes, heath, sheath, teeth. "Oft as in airy rings they skim the heath,

The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death.”—POPE.

EATHE.

Breathe, sheathe, &c. Perfect rhymes, wreath, inwreath, bequeath, beneath, underneath, &c. Nearly perfect rhyme, seethe, &c.

EAVE.

Cleave, heave, interweave, leave, weave, bereave, inweave. Perfect rhymes, receive, conceive, deceive, perceive. Nearly perfect rhymes, eve, grieve, sleeve, thieve, aggrieve, achieve, believe, disbelieve, relieve, reprieve, retrieve. Allowable rhymes, give, live, lave, cave, &c., and have.

"Not Neptune's self from all her streams receives
A wealthier tribute than to thine he gives."-POPE.

EBB.

Ebb, webb, &c. Allowable rhymes, babe, astrolabe, glebe, &c.

ECK.

Beck, neck, check, deck, speck, wreck. Allowable rhymes, break, take, beak, sneak, &c.

ECT.

Sect, abject, affect, correct, incorrect, collect, deject, detect, direct, disrespect, disaffect, dissect, effect, elect, eject, erect, expect, indirect, infect, inspect, neglect, object, project, protect, recollect, reflect, reject, respect, select, subject, suspect, architect, circumspect, direct,