\As"so*nance\, n. [Cf. F. assonance. See {Assonant}.]
1. Resemblance of sound. ``The disagreeable assonance of
   `sheath' and `sheathed.''' --Steevens.
2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last
   acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word
   correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while
   the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as,
   calamo and platano, baby and chary.
         The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. --Hallam.
3. Incomplete correspondence.
         Assonance between facts seemingly remote. --Lowell.