v. [f. BE- 4 and 6 + RIME.]
1. trans. To compose rhymes about, to celebrate in rhyme; often, to lampoon.
1589. Almond for Parrat, 42. Another while hee would all to berime Doctour Perne … and make a by word of his bald pate.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. ii. 186. I was neuer so berim’d since Pythagoras time that I was an Irish Rat.
1790. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Adv. Future Laureat, Wks. 1812, II. 333. Rush loyal to berhyme a King and Queen.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 260. Some glowing lines, in which I berhymed the little lady.
2. To compose in rhyme, put into rhyme.
1801. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 382. The ladies cannot endure the metre of ‘Thallaba.’… Berime it, and they will bepraise it.
