#25

limn \LIM\, transitive verb:
1. To depict by drawing or painting.
2. To portray in words; to describe.

Oh, yes, I write, as I limn the familiar perfections of his profile, "you look very well."
-- Kimberly Elkins, "What Is Visible", The Atlantic, March 2003

In telling these people's stories Mr. Butler draws upon the same gifts of empathy and insight, the same ability to limn an entire life in a couple of pages.
-- Michiko Kakutani, "Earthlings May Endanger Your Peaceful Rationality", New York Times, March 10, 2000

But used faithfully and correctly, language can "limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers."
-- John Darnton, "In Sweden, Proof of The Power Of Words", New York Times, December 8, 1993


Limn is from Middle English limnen, alteration of luminen, from enluminen, from Medieval French enluminer, from Late Latin illuminare, "to illuminate," ultimately from Latin lumen, "light."




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#22

rhyme [rahym] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, rhymed, rhym·ing.
–noun
1.
identity in sound of some part, esp. 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.
verse (def. 4).
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
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.
—Idiom
13.
rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Also, rime.


[Origin: 1250–1300; ME rime < OF, deriv. of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row ≪ OHG rīm series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word]



Assonant rhyme
Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants.
example: dip/limp

Consonant rhyme
Similar consonants but different vowels.
example: limp/lump

Eye rhyme
Based on spelling and not on sound.
example: love/move

Feminine rhyme (double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended)
Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables.
example: drinking/shrinking

Identical rhyme
Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.

Light line
Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress.
example: mat/combat

Macaronic rhyme
Rhyming of two words with different languages.

Masculine rhyme
Differing consonant sounds ending with identically stressed syllables.
example: report/support

Near rhyme (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique)
Final consonant sounds the same but initial consonants and vowel sounds are different.
example: tought/sat

Perfect rhyme (exact, true, full)
Begins with different sounds and end with the same.
example: pie/die

Rich rhyme (French for rime riche)
Word that rhymes with its homonym.
example: blue/blew

Scarce rhyme
Rhyming of words with limited rhyming alternatives.
example: whisp/lisp

Wrenched rhyme
A stressed syllable with an unstressed one (occurs most often in ballads and folk poetry).
example: lady/a bee



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