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DICTIONARY OF RHYMES. |
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slab stab tab |
habnab • babe |
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AC, ACK |
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back
black
brach \
brack%
clack
crack
hack
knack
lac
lack
pack
plaque
quack |
rack $
sac
sack
slack
smack
snack ||
stack
tack
thwack U
track
whack
wrack
arrack |
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* A vulgarism, contracted from hap-ne-hap, let it happen or not; at all risks ; at the mercy of chance.
Cursed be they that build their hopes on haps.—Sidney. t A bitch hound—still current in the Eastern counties. Truth's a dog that must to kennel; he must be whipped out, while Lady the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.—Shakspere. I Obsolete. A flaw, a crack.
A brack in the stuff.—Beaumont and Fletcher. § In addition to the many ordinary meanings of this word, it is used vulgarly for wreck, in the phrase rack and ruin; and is also cognate with reek, vapour, mist.
The clouds above which we call the rack.—Bacon. Leave not a rack behind.—Shakspere. || A colloquialism from snatch,—a slight hasty meal; a share; to go shares, to go snacks.
^T A vulgarism.
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.—Hudibras.
We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.—Shakspert,
•• Then gladly turning sought his ancient place, And passed a life of piety and peace.—Parnell.
By a stream side, on the grass:—
On her shining hair and face.—E. B. Browning.
All its allotted length of days,
The flower ripens in its place.—Tennyson.
From belt to belt of crimson seas—
A hundred spirits whisper, " Peace."—Tennyson. |
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