600+ Rhymes For MOTHER-TONGUE

• Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)

• Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.

• Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.

• (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

• any immature animal

• United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

• young people collectively

• United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

• British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

• United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

• English poet (1683-1765)

• United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

• United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

• suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

• being in its early stage

• not tried or tested by experience

• a special way of doing something

• the way a garment hangs

• a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms

• be suspended or hanging

• cause to be hanging or suspended

• kill by hanging

• let drop or droop

• fall or flow in a certain way

• be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive

• give heed (to)

• be suspended or poised

• hold on tightly or tenaciously

• be exhibited

• prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury

• decorate or furnish with something suspended

• be placed in position as by a hinge

• place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction

• suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste

• either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood

• the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy

• a usually brief attempt

• a brief indulgence of your impulses

• the act of flinging

• throw with force or recklessness

• move in an abrupt or headlong manner

• indulge oneself

• throw or cast away

• a crosspiece between the legs of a chair

• one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder

• the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring

• a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed

• a natural flow of ground water

• a point at which water issues forth

• the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

• a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

• move forward by leaps and bounds

• develop into a distinctive entity

• spring back; spring away from an impact

• develop suddenly

• produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly

• a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity

• mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth

• a sweeping blow or stroke

• changing location by moving back and forth

• a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

• a jaunty rhythm in music

• the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it

• in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

• a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them

• move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting

• move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner

• change direction with a swinging motion; turn

• influence decisively

• make a big sweeping gesture or movement

• hang loosely

• hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement

• alternate dramatically between high and low values

• live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style

• have a certain musical rhythm

• be a social swinger; socialize a lot

• play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm

• engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity

• a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

• any long thin projection that is transient

• a manner of speaking

• a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea

• the tongue of certain animals used as meat

• the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot

• metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side

• articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments

• lick or explore with the tongue

• fecal matter of animals

• fertilize or dress with dung

• defecate; used of animals

• a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners

• that is on a string

• aroused to impatience or anger

• Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil

• fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit

• come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation

• to remain emotionally or intellectually attached

• hold on tightly or tenaciously

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

• turn blue

• owed and payable immediately or on demand

• suitable to or expected in the circumstances

• that which is deserved or owed

• a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)

• directly or exactly; straight

• scheduled to arrive

• capable of being assigned or credited to

• an important question that is in dispute and must be settled

• one of a series published periodically

• some situation or event that is thought about

• the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)

• supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government

• the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• the immediate descendants of a person

• the becoming visible

• an opening that permits escape or release

• the act of issuing printed materials

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• circulate or distribute or equip with

• bring out an official document (such as a warrant)

• come out of

• make out and issue

• consistent with fact or reality; not false

• expressing or given to expressing the truth

• proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment

• as acknowledged

• accurately placed or thrown

• devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth

• conforming to definitive criteria

• worthy of being depended on

• not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

• rightly so called

• determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles

• having a legally established claim

• in tune; accurate in pitch

• accurately fitted; level

• make level, square, balanced, or concentric

• continue a certain state, condition, or activity

• continue talking

• keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last

• move ahead; travel onward in time or space

• allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature

• do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop

• continue after an interruption

• continue in a place, position, or situation

• span an interval of distance, space or time

• exist over a prolonged period of time

• a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice

• a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones

• a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel

• a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released

• bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck

• hurl as if with a sling

• hang loosely or freely; let swing

• move with a sling

• hold or carry in a sling

• a twisting squeeze

• twist and press out of shape

• twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid

• not famous or acclaimed

• having value that is not acknowledged

• an elderly man

• any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

• made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

• out of fashion

• belonging to or lasting from times long ago

• shop for antiques

• give an antique appearance to

• present reasons and arguments

• have an argument about something

• give evidence of

• a written order directing a bank to pay money

• withdraw money by writing a check

• a slight indication

• evidence that helps to solve a problem

• roll into a ball

• an associate that one works with

• a person who is member of one's class or profession

• an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech

• evidence that helps to solve a problem

• a stimulus that provides information about what to do

• sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

• assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned

• cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

• join or attach with or as if with glue

• be fixed as if by glue

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action

• an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

• unite to form a league

• a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

• (Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a swarm of insects that attack plants

• any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

• an annoyance

• cause to suffer a blight

• annoy continually or chronically

• carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

• follow in or as if in pursuit

• go in search of or hunt for

• carry further or advance

• recovery or preservation from loss or danger

• free from harm or evil

• take forcibly from legal custody

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy

• leaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• (French) a street or road in France

• feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

• a sculpture representing a human or animal

• French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• a practical method or art applied to some particular task

• skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity

• part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function

• a soft thin (usually translucent) paper

• create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton

• radically distinctive and without equal

• (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality

• the single one of its kind

• highly unusual or rare but not the single instance

• not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

• not clearly expressed or understood

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

• the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

• the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

• relative darkness or lightness of a color

• (music) the relative duration of a musical note

• an ideal accepted by some individual or group

• fix or determine the value of; assign a value to

• hold dear

• regard highly; think much of

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• estimate the value of

• the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

• any admirable quality or attribute

• morality with respect to sexual relations

• a particular moral excellence

• projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else

• project over

• be suspended over or hang over

• a line of approach

• a wide street or thoroughfare

• meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

• a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

• a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

• cook outdoors on a barbecue grill