Category:Rime

Rime, n. Etym: [l. rima.]

Defn: a rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir t. Browne.

Rime Rime, n. Etym: [as. hrim; akin to d. rijm, icel. hrim, dan. rim, sw. Rim; cf. D. rijp, g. reif, ohg. rifo, hrifo.]

Defn: white frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De quincey.

Rime Rime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Riming.]

Defn: to freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Rime Rime, n. Etym: [etymol. uncertain.]

Defn: a step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rime Rime, n.

Defn: rhyme. See rhyme. Coleridge. Landor.

Note: this spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming Into use again.

Rime Rime, v. i. & t.

Defn: to rhyme. See rhyme.