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DICTIONARY OF RHYMES. 341

shrike spike strike alike

dislike leak antique lick


	pensile revile	bibliophile bill
	crocodile	boil
	reconcile
	ILL*	compare ILE
	bill	thrill
	chill	till
	drill	trill
	fill	will
	frill	distil
	gill grill hill	fulfil idyll instil
	ill	missile
	kill mill pill quill rill	pencil peril Sibyl codicil daffodil
	shrill	deshabille
	skill	utensil
	spill still swill	file feel peal

ILD


	child	gild
	mild	build
	wild	filPd

Also the preterites of verbs in ilt; as smil'd, revil'd.

ILE

Words terminating in ile with the accent on the penultimate have the final i short generally; as hostile (hosttl,. The following are exceptions : edile, exile, gentile, pensile, profile. When the accent is on the antepenultimate the same rule generally holds good; as in juvenile, puerile: exceptions—camomile, reconcile. Both sounds, however, form passable rhymes. In reading poetry, it is advisable to give the long sound to i in all such words, except when rhyme demands the short one; e.g. " fertile vales," wind for wind.

Also many words in ile accented on the penultimate or antepeuulti. mate syllable ; as fertile, juvenile-(See note under ile.)

aisle

bile

chyle

file

guile

isle

mile

pile

smile

stile

style

tile

vile

while

awhile

beguile

compile

defile

edile

erewhile

exile

gentile

bilk f

milk

ILK silk

ILT

hilt

jilt

milt

built

gilt

guilt

• Thy stone, O Sisyphus, stands still; Ixion rests upon his wheel.

Dryden.

f Vulgar, to cheat, deceive.

But be sure, says he, you don't bilk me.—Addison.