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noun
Rime  n.  A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.



Rime  n.  White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. "The trees were now covered with rime."



Rime  n.  A step or round of a ladder; a rung.



Rime  n.  Rhyme. See Rhyme. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.



verb
Rime  v. i. & v. t.  To rhyme. See Rhyme.



Rime  v. i.  (past & past part. rimed; pres. part. riming)  To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.






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"Rime" Quotes from Famous Books



... over the lessons, I used to see a curious pained look spread over my mother's face, and the tears would come in her eyes, but when I kissed her she would smile directly and call my attention to the beauty of the rime frost on the fruit-trees in Brownsmith's garden; or, if it was summer, to the sweet scent of the flowers; or to the ...
— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... and still upon the bed, with the sheet drawn over his face, and the people crowding in, whispering, shuffling, bearing the long, black coffin among them. I say, it is dim and blurred and I cannot think it or write it properly. There seemed a rime upon the window-panes; the hills were bare, and the cup of the valley lay drained and empty before me, with the shadow of death darkening all the ...
— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris

... nurse I've done that hundreds of times. But frankly, I can't read poetry; I begin to sing-song it at once; it becomes rime without reason. ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... generous fruits, though gathered ere their prime, Still showed a quickness, and maturing time But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of Rime. ...
— Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan • Toru Dutt

... phenomenon, which is called frost-rime, only thought of getting together; so immediately various shouts ...
— The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne


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