obscene, terrene, &c., queen, spleen, &c. Allowable rhymes, bane, mane, &c., ban, man, &c., bin, thin, begin, &c.

Heard, herd, sherd, &c. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in er, as erred, preferred, &c. Allowable rhyme, beard, the preterit. 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 rhymes, 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, &c., lace, mace, &c., miss, hiss, &c., nice, vice, &c.

EASH, see ESH.

EAST.

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

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, grate, hate, &c., get, met, &c., bit, hit, &c. See ATE.

EATH.

Breath, death, &c, Allowable rhymes, heath, sheath, teeth.

EATHE.

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

EAVE.

Perfect

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

EBB.

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

ECK.

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

ECT.

Sect, abject, affect, correct, incorrect, collect, deject, detect, direct, dis respect, disaffect, dissect, effect, elect, eject, erect, expect, indirect, infect, inspect, neglect, object, project, protect, recollect, reflect, reject, respect, select, subject, suspect, architect, circumspect, dialect, intellect. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in eck, as decked, checked, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in ake, and eak, as baked, leaked. ED.

Bed, bled, fed, fied, bred, led, red, shred, shed, sped, wed, abed, inbred, misled. Perfect rhymes, said, bread, dread, dead, head, lead, read, spread, thread, tread, behead, o'erspread. Allowable rhymes, bead, mead, &c., blade, fade, &c., maid, paid, &c., and the preterits and participles of verbs in ay, ey, and eigh, as bayed, obeyed, veighed, &c.

EDE, see EED.
EDGE.

Edge, wedge, fledge, hedge, ledge, pledge, sedge, allege. Allowable rhymes, age, page, &c., siege, oblige, &c., privilege, sacrilege, sortilege.

EE.

Bee, free, glee, knee, see, three, thee, tree, agree, decree, degree, disagree, foresee, o'ersee, pedigree, he, me, we, she, be, jubilee, lee. Nearly perfect rhymes, sea, plea, flea, tea, key. Allowable rhymes, all words of one syllable ending in y, ye, or ie, or polysyllables of these terminations having the accent on the ultimate or antepenultimate syllable.

EECE, see EASE.

EECH, see EACH.
EED.

Creed, deed, indeed, bleed, breed, feed, heed, meed, need, reed, speed, seed, steed, weed, proceed, succeed, exceed. Perfect rhymes, knead, read, intercede, precede, recede, concede, impede, supersede, &c., bead, lead, mead, plead, &c. Allowable rhymes, bed, dead, &c., bid, hid, &c., made, blade, &c.

EEF, see IEF.

EEK, see EAK

EEL, see EAL

EEM, see EAM

EEN, see EAN.

EEP.

Creep, deep, sleep, keep, peep, sheep, steep, sweep, weep, asleep. Nearly perfect rhymes, cheap, heap, neap, &c. Allowable rhymes, ape, rape, &c., step, nep, &c., hip, lip, &c.

EER.

Beer, deer, fleer, geer, jeer, peer, meer, leer, sheer, steer, sneer, cheer, vcer, picker, domineer, cannoneer, compeer, engineer, mutineer, pioneer, privateer, charioteer, chanticleer, career, mountaineer. Perfect rhymes, here, sphere, adhere, cohere, interfere, persevere, revere, austere, severe, sincere, hemisphere, &c., ear, clear, dear, fear, hear, near, sear, smear, spear, tear, rear, year, appear, besmear, disappear, endear, auctioneer. Al lowable rhymes, bare, dare, &c, prefer, deter, character, &c.

EESE, see EEZE.

EET, see EAT.

EETH, see EATH.

EEVE, see EAVE.

EEZE.

Breeze, freeze, wheeze, sneeze, squeeze, and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular, present tense, of verbs in ee, as bees, he sees. Per fect rhymes, cheese, these, &c. Nearly perfect rhymes, ease, appease, disease, displease, tease, seize, &c., and the plurals of nouns in ea, as teas, pleas, &c., and the polysyllables ending in es, having the accent on the antepenultimate, as images, monarchies, &c.

EFT.

Cleft, left, theft, weft, bereft, &c. Allowable rhymes, lift, sift, &c., ana the third persons singular, present tense, of verbs in afe, aff, augh, and iff, as chafed, quaffed, laughed, whiffed, &c.

EG.

Egg, leg, beg, peg. Allowable rhymes, vague, plague, &c., league, teague, &c. EIGH, see AY.

EIGHT, see ATE.

EIGN, see AIN.

EIL, see AIL.

EIN, see AIN.

EINT, see AINT.

EIR, see ARE.

EIT, see EAT.

EIVE, see EAVE.

EIZE, see EEZE.
ELL.

Ell, dwell, fell, hell, knell, quell, sell, bell, cell, dispel, foretell, excel, compel, befell, yell, well, tell, swell, spell, smell, shell, parallel, sentinel, infidel, citadel, refel, repel, rebel, ímpel, expel. Allowable rhymes, bale, sale, &c., heal, peal, &c., eel, steel, &c.

ELD.

Held, geld, withheld, upheld, beheld, &c. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in ell, as swelled, felled, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in ale, ail, &c., heal, seal, &c., as em paled, wailed, &c., healed, sealed; &c.

Elm, helm, realm, whelm, overwhelm, &c. Allowable rhymes, palm. film, &c.

Help, whelp, yelp, &c.

ELP.
ELT.

Belt, gelt, melt, felt, welt, smelt, pelt, dwelt. Perfect rhyme, dealt.

Delve, helve, twelve, &c.

ELVE.

ELVES.

Elves, themselves, &c. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in elf and elve, as twelves, delves, shelves, &c.

EM.

Gem, hem, stem, them, diadem, stratagem, &c. Perfect rhymes, con demn, contemn, &c. Allowable rhymes, lame, tame, &c., team, seam, theme, phlegm, &c.

Den, hen, fen, ken, men, pen, ten, then, when, wren, denizen. Allowable rhymes, bane, fane, &c., mean, bean, &c.

ENCE.

Fence, hence, pence, thence, whence, defence, expense, offence, pretence, commence, abstinence, circumference, conference, confidence, consequence, continence, benevolence, concupiscence, difference, diffidence, diligence, eloquence, eminence, evidence, excellence, impenitence, impertinence, impotence, impudence, improvidence, incontinence, indifference, indigence, indolence, inference, inteiligence, innocence, magnificence, munificence, negligence, omnipotence, penitence, preference, providence, recompense, reference, residence, reverence, vehemence, violence. Perfect rhymes, sense, dense, cense, condense, immense, intense, propense, dispense, suspense, prepense, incense, frankincense.

ENCH.

Bench, drench, retrench, quench, clench, stench, tench, trench, wench, wrench, intrench.

END.

Bend, mend, blend, end, fend, lend, rend, send, spend, tend, vend, amend, attend, ascend, commend, contend, defend, depend, descend, distend, expend, extend, forefend, impend, misspend, obtend, offend, portend, pretend, protend, suspend, transcend, unbend, apprehend, comprehend, condescend, discommend, recommend, reprehend, dividend, reverend. Perfect rhymes, friend, befriend, and the preterits and participles of verbs in en, as penned, kenned, &c. Allowable rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in ean, as gleaned, yeaned, &c.

ENDS.

Amends. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns, and third persons singu lar, present tense, of verbs in end, as ends, friends, he mends, &c.

Cleanse. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns, and third persons singular, present tense, of verbs in en, as hens, fens, he pens, he kens, &c.

ENT.

Bent, lent, rent, pent, scent, sent, shent, spent, tent, vent, went, absent, meant, ascent, assent, attent, augment, cement, content, consent, descent, dissent, event, extent, foment, frequent, indent, intent, invent, lament, misspent, o'erspent, present, prevent, relent, repent, resent, ostent, ferment, outwent, underwent, discontent, unbent, circumvent, represent, abstinent, accident, accomplishment, admonishment, acknowledgment, aliment, arbitrement, argument, banishment, battlement, blandishment, astonishment, armipotent, bellipotent, benevolent, chastisement, competent, compliment, complement, confident, continent, corpulent, detriment, different, diffident, diligent, disparagement, document, element, eloquent, eminent, equivalent, establishment, evident, excellent, excrement, exigent, experiment, firma ment, frandulent, government, embellishment, imminent, impenitent, im

pertinent, implement, impotent, imprisonment, improvident, impudent, inci dent, incompetent, incontinent, indifferent, indigent, innocent, insolent, instrument, irreverent, languishment, ligament, lineament, magnificent, management, medicament, malecontent, monument, negligent, nourishment, nutriment, occident, omnipotent, opulent, ornament, parliament, penitent, permanent, pertinent, president, precedent, prevalent, provident, punish ment, ravishment, regiment, resident, redolent. rudiment, sacrament, sedi ment, sentiment, settlement, subsequent, supplement, intelligent, tenement, temperament, testament, tournament, turbulent, vehement, violent, virulent reverent. Allowable rhymes, paint, saint, &c.

ENTS.

Accoutrements. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns, and third persons singular, present tense, of verbs in ent, as scents, he assents, &c.

EP.

Step, nep, &c. Allowable rhymes, leap, reap, &c., rape, tape, &c.

EPT.

Accept, adept, except, intercept, &c. Perfect rhymes, crept, slept, wept, kept. Allowable rhymes, the preterits and particles of verbs in ape, eep, and eap, as peeped, reaped, shaped, &c.

ERR.

Err, aver, defer, infer, deter, inter, refer, transfer, confer, prefer, parterre, administer, wagoner, islander, arbiter, character, villager, cottager, dowager, forager, pillager, voyager, massacre, gardener, slanderer, flatterer, idolater, provender, theatre, amphitheatre, foreigner, lavender, messenger, passenger, Sorcerer, interpreter, officer, mariner, harbinger, minister, register, canister, chorister, sophister, presbyter, lawgiver, philosopher, astrologer, loiterer, prisoner, grasshopper, astronomer, sepulchre. thunderer, traveller, murderer, usurer. Allowable rhymes, bare, care, &c., ear, fear, &c., bar, car, &c., sir, fir, her, &c.

ERCH, see EARCH.

ERCE, see ERSE.
ERD, see EARD.

ERE, see EER.
ERGE.

Verge, absterge, emerge, immerge. Perfect rhyme, dirge. Nearly perferr rhyme, urge, purge, surge. Allowable rhymes, barge, large, &c.

ERN.

Fern, stern, discern, concern. Perfect rhymes, learn, earn, yearn, &c. Allowable rhymes, barn, yarn, &c., burn, turn, &c.

ERSE.

Verse, herse, absterse, adverse, averse, converse, disperse, immerse, perverse, reverse, traverse, asperse, intersperse, universe. Perfect rhymes, amerce, coerce, &c., fierce, tierce, pierce, &c. Allowable rhymes, farce, parce, Mars, &c., purse, curse, &c.

ERT.

Wert, advert, assert, avert, concert, convert, controvert, desert, divert, exert, expert, insert, invert, pervert, subvert. Allowable rhymes, heart, part, &c., shirt, dirt, &c., hurt, spurt, &c.

ERVE.

Serve, nerve, swerve, preserve, deserve, conserve, observe, reserve dis serve, subserve. Allowable rhymes, starve, carve, &c., curve, &c.

ESS.

Bless, dress, cess, chess, guess, less, mess, press, stress, acquiesce, acess address, assess, compress, confess. caress, depress, digress, dispossess, dis