cloys, &c. Allowable rhymes, wise, size, prize, and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in ie or y, as pies, tries, &c.

OIST.

Hoist, moist, foist. Perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in oice, as rejoiced. Allowable rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in ice, as spiced.

Coit, exploit, adroit, &c.

sight, mite, &c.

OIT.

Allowable rhymes, white, light, might,

OKE.

Broke, choke, smoke, spoke, stroke, yoke, bespoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, &c. Perfect rhymes, choak, cloak, oak, soak, stroak. Allowable rhymes, stock, mock, buck, luck, talk, walk, look, book, &c. See OCK and OOK.

"So strong they struck,

There seemed less force required to fell an oak.”—Dryden.

"The soft seducer, with enticing looks,

The bellowing rivals to the fight provokes."-Dryden.

OL.

Loll, doll, droll, extol, capitol, &c. awl, bawl, hole, mole, dull, mull, &c.

OLD.

Allowable rhymes, all, ball,

Old, bold, cold, gold, hold, mold, scold, sold, told, behold, enfold, unfold, uphold, withhold, foretold, manifold, marigold. Perfect rhymes, preterites and participles of verbs in oll, owl, ole, and oal, as rolled, cajoled, foaled, bowled, &c.

OLE.

Bole, dole, jole, hole, mole, pole, sole, stole, whole, shole, cajole, condole, parole, patrole, pistole, &c. Perfect rhymes, coal, foal, goal, soal, bowl, prowl, droll, roll, scroll, toll, troll, control, enroll, soul, toll, roll, &c. Allowable rhymes, gull, dull, bull, full, loll, doll, fool, cool, &c.

"An inner room receives the num'rous shoals
Of such as pay to be reputed fools."-GARTH.

Stolen, swoln.

OLN.

H

OLT.

Bolt, colt, jolt, holt, dolt, molt, revolt, thunderbolt. Allowable rhymes, vault, fault, salt, &c.

OLVE.

Solve, absolve, resolve, convolve, involve, devolve, dissolve, revolve,

OM, see UM.

OME.

Dome, home, tome. Perfect rhymes, foam, roam, loam, come. Allowable rhymes, dumb, hum, comb, bomb, troublesome, &c. See OOM.

"The soul uneasy and confined at home,

Rests and expatiates on a life to come."-POPE.

OMB, see OOM. OMPT, see OUNT.

ON.

Don, on, con, upon, anon, &c. Perfect rhymes, gone, undergone, &c. Allowable rhymes, dun, run, won, own, moan, lone, bone, amazon, cinnamon, comparison, caparison, garrison, skeleton, union, juppon. See UN.

"But true expression, like th' unchanging sun,
Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon,
It gilds all objects, but it alters none."-POPE.
"In youth thou comet-like art gazed upon,

But art portentous to thyself alone."-SEEDLEY.

OND.

Pond, bond, fond, beyond, abscond, correspond, despond, diamond, vagabond, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in on, as donned, conned, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in one, oan, and un, as stoned, moaned, stunned, &c.

ONCE, see UNCE.

ONE.

Prone, bone, drone, throne, alone, stone, tone, lone, zone, atone, enthrone, dethrone, postpone, &c. Perfect rhymes, grown, flown, disown, thrown, sown, own, loan, shown, overthrown, groan, blown, moan, known. Allowable rhymes, dawn, lawn, on, cone, none, bun, dun, moon, boon, &c.

"Trumpets and drums shall fright her from the throne,
As sounding cymbals aid the lab'ring moon."-Dryden.

"Where now is Homer, who possessed the throne?

Th' immortal work remains, the mortal author's gone."-DRYDEN. "Each has his share of good, and when 'tis gone,

The guest, though hungry, cannot rise too soon."-DRYDEN.

ONG.

Long, prong, song, thong, strong, throng, wrong, along, belong, prolong. Allowable rhymes, bung, among, hung, &c.

"He said; when Shock, who thought she slept too long,

Leapt up, and waked his mistress with his tongue."-POPE.

"She swept the seas, and as she skimmed along,
Her flying foot unbathed in billows hung."-Dryden.

ONGUE, see UNG. ONK, see 1UNK.

ONSE.

Response, sconce, ensconce.

Allowable rhymes, once, nonce, as

kaunce, &c.

ONT.

Font. Perfect rhyme, want. Allowable rhymes, front, affront, confront, punt, runt, &c., and the abbreviated negatives, won't, don't, &c.

00.

Coo, woo. Nearly perfect rhymes, shoe, two, too, who, do, ado, undo, through, you, true, blue, flew, stew, &c. Allowable rhymes, know, blow, go, toe, &c.

:OOD.

Brood, mood, food, rood, &c. Nearly perfect rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in oo, as cooed, wooed, &c. Allowable rhymes, wood, good, hood, stood, withstood, understood, brotherhood, livelihood, likelihood, neighbourhood, widowhood, blood, flood, brood, feud, illude, habitude, &c.; the preterites and participles of verbs in ue and ew, as brewed, stewed, imbued, subdued, bud, mud, &c., and the three apostrophised auxiliaries would, could, should, (pronounced wou'd, cou'd, shou'd), ode, code, &c., and the preterites and participles of verbs in ow, as crowed, rowed, &c., also nod, hod, &c.

"For works may have more wit than does 'em good,
As bodies perish by excess of blood."-POPE.

"The table groans with costly piles of food,
And all is more than hospitably good."-PARNELL.
"Resistless through the war Camilla rode,

In danger unappall'd, and pleased with blood."-Dryden.
"Nor safe their dwellings were; for, sapped by floods,
Their houses fell upon their household gods."-Dryden.

OOF.

Hoof, proof, roof, woof, aloof, disproof, reproof, behoof. Allowable rhymes, huff, ruff, rough, enough, off, scoff, &c.

OOK.

Book, brook, cook, crook, hook, look, rook, shook, took, mistook, undertook, forsook, betook. Allowable rhymes, puke, fluke, duck, luck, broke, spoke, &c.

"The mother-cow must wear a low'ring look,

Sour-headed, strongly necked to bear the yoke."—Dryden.

OOL.

Cool, fool, pool, school, stool, tool, befool. Allowable rhymes, pule, rule, dull, gull, bull, pull, pole, hole, &c.

"Fear most to tax an honourable fool,

Whose right it is uncensured to be dull."-POPE.

OOM.

Gloom, groom, loom, room, spoom, bloom, doom, &c. Perfect rhymes, tomb, entomb, and the city Rome. Nearly perfect rhymes, whom, womb. Allowable rhymes, come, drum, bomb, thumb, clomb, plume, spume, from, home, comb, &c.

"At ombre singly to decide their doom,

And swells her breasts with conquests yet to come."-POPE.

OON.

Boon, soon, moon, noon, spoon, swoon, buffoon, lampoon, poltroon. Allowable rhymes, tune, prune, bun, dun, gone, don, bone, alone, moan, roan, &c. See ONE.

OOP.

Loop, poop, scoop, stoop, troop, droop, whoop, coop, hoop, &c. Perfect rhymes, soup, groupe, &c. Allowable rhymes, dupe, up, sup, tup, cop, top, cope, hope, &c.

OOR.

Boor, poor, moor, &c. Perfect rhymes, tour, amour, paramour,

contour. Allowable rhymes, bore, pore, pure, sure, your, pour, floor, bur, cur, sir, stir, &c.

"The mean suspicious wretch, whose bolted door

Ne'er moved in duty to the wandering poor."-Parnell.

"Nor envies he the rich their heapy store,

door,

Nor his own peace disturbs with pity for the poor."-DRYDEN.

OOSE.

Goose, loose. Nearly perfect rhymes, the nouns deuce, use, profuse, seduce, &c. Allowable rhymes, dose, jocose, globose, moss, toss, us, pus, thus, &c.

OOT.

Root, boot, coot, hoot, shoot. Nearly perfect rhymes, suit, fruit, lute, impute, &c. Allowable rhymes, rote, vote, goat, coat, but, hut, soot, foot, put, hot, got, &c.

OOTH.

Booth, sooth, smooth, &c. Allowable rhymes, tooth, youth, soothe, uncouth, forsooth, &c. Though these are frequent, they are very improper rhymes, the th in one class being flat, and in the other sharp.

OOZE.

Ooze, nooze.

Perfect rhymes, whose, choose, loose. Nearly perfect rhymes, the verbs to use, abuse, &c. Allowable rhymes, doze, hose, buzz, and does, the third person singular of do, with the plurals of nouns and third persons singular present tense of verbs in ow, o, oe, ew, ue, as foes, goes, throws, views, imbues, flues, &c.

OP.

Chop, hop, drop, crop, fop, top, pop, prop, flop, shop, slop, sop, stop, swop, underprop. Allowable rhymes, cope, trope, hope, tuɲ, sup, coop, &c.

OPE.

Sope, hope, cope, mope, grope, pope, rope, scope, slope, top, trope, aslope, elope, interlope, telescope, heliotrope, horoscope, antelope, &c., and ope', contracted in poetry for open. Allowable rhymes, hoop, coop, lop, top, tup, sup, &c.

ОРТ.

Adopt, rhymes perfectly with the preterites and participles of verbs in op, as hopped, lopped, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterites and