Rhymes for ELEGY

• an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration

• a sign of something about to happen

• an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality

• a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

• myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

• the study of myths

• a loose dressing gown for women

• the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system

• a collection of selected literary passages

• a final climactic stage

• apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth

• the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

• The party owed an obligation by another party, the obligor.

• (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes

• A female.

• (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

• (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.

• (personal, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

• (personal, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.

• (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).

• an institution created to conduct business

• small military unit; usually two or three platoons

• the state of being with someone

• organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)

• a social or business visitor

• a social gathering of guests or companions

• a band of people associated temporarily in some activity

• crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship

• a unit of firefighters including their equipment

• be a companion to somebody

• a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

• have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

• be identical to; be someone or something

• occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere

• have an existence, be extant

• happen, occur, take place

• be identical or equivalent to

• form or compose

• work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function

• represent, as of a character on stage

• spend or use time

• have life, be alive

• to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form

• be priced at

• the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas)

• a state in New England with capital Augusta

• a person of no influence

• the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

• a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet

• used of a single unit or thing; not two or more

• the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located

• perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

• perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

• perceive or be contemporaneous with

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• deem to be

• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

• see or watch

• come together

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

• go to see for professional or business reasons

• go to see for a social visit

• go to see a place, as for entertainment

• take charge of or deal with

• receive as a specified guest

• date regularly; have a steady relationship with

• see and understand, have a good eye

• deliberate or decide

• observe as if with an eye

• observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

• undergo or live through a difficult experience

• conduct someone someplace

• match or meet

• make sense of; assign a meaning to

• a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

• the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

• one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips

• being one more than two

• the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

• possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

• concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

• motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

• a future prospect or potential

• capability of existing or happening or being true

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a possible alternative

• not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.)

• a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)

• the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

• the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known

• an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

• exact sameness

• a search for knowledge

• an instance of questioning

• a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest

• immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

• freedom of choice

• personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

• leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

• an act of undue intimacy

• a room where books are kept

• a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing

• a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study

• (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use

• a building that houses a collection of books and other materials

• larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

• inferior in rank or status

• (informal) small and of little importance

• contemptibly narrow in outlook

• a range horse of the western United States

• an informal term for a racehorse

• a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

• a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

• any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder

• the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three

• being ten more than twenty

• all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

• the state of being actual or real

• the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be

• the quality possessed by something that is real

• be in accord; be in agreement

• consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• go together

• show grammatical agreement

• be agreeable or suitable

• achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose

• not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint

• unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion

• not held in servitude

• people who are free

• without restraint

• costing nothing

• not occupied or in use

• not fixed in position

• not taken up by scheduled activities

• completely wanting or lacking

• not literal

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• relieve from

• remove or force out from a position

• grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to

• make (information) available for publication

• free from obligations or duties

• free or remove obstruction from

• let off the hook

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• an area of northern Israel; formerly the northern part of Palestine and the ancient kingdom of Israel; the scene of Jesus's ministry

• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

• something crucial for explaining

• pitch of the voice

• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

• a kilogram of a narcotic drug

• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court

• a list of answers to a test

• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access

• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

• serving as an essential component

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• provide with a key

• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

• regulate the musical pitch of

• harmonize with or adjust to

• the side of something that is sheltered from the wind

• United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

• United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)

• United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1940-1973)

• United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)

• leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)

• soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)

• American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870)

• towards the side away from the wind

• for a long time without essential change

• a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• turbulent water with swells of considerable size

• a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience

• a stupid mistake

• a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water

• a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes

• a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves

• dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea

• English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

• a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

• a figure that branches from a single root

• force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

• plant with trees

• chase an animal up a tree

• stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

• any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored