1. identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
5. verse¹ (def. 4).

6. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
7. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
8. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.

9. to make rhyme or verse; versify.
10. to use rhyme in writing verse.
11. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
12. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.

13. logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.

1. identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words
2. a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound
3. a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines
4. any verse or piece of poetry
5. sense, logic, or meaning

6. to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound
7. to render (a subject) into rhyme
8. to compose (verse) in a metrical structure

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