(a) Agreement in the terminal sounds of words or metrical lines, rime proper; ~ coue, tail rime; (b) measure, meter, rhythm; roumen ~, to expand the metrical line (e.g., from octosyllabics to fourteeners); also as adj. [quot.: 1440]; (c) rimed verse; ~ doggerel; in (o) ~; (d) a riming poem, song, or ballad; a verse narrative; rimes ren, a poem, poetry; (e) ?a statement, speech; (f) ~ or resoun, sense.