单词 | rime frost |
释义 | rime frostn. Hoar frost, rime. Also as a count noun.Apparently rare between the 15th and 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost > hoar frost rimeeOE frosteOE rime frostOE hoar-frostc1290 rain-frostc1300 white frostc1384 griddled frosta1400 hoar-rimec1550 hoar1567 rind1575 frost-dewa1626 cranreuchc1686 OE Lambeth Psalter lxxvii. 47 Occidit in grandine uineas eorum et moros eorum in pruina : he ofsloh on hagele heora wingeardes & heora morbeamas on rimforste. c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 622 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 317 Þanne freost þe þicke Myst and cleouez an heiȝ on þe treo, And þarof comez þe Rym-forst..he cleouez on hegges al a-bovte. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 6520 Manna..fell.fra heuen..Als a rime frost [Vesp. grideld frost] to se. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 434 Ryme frost, pruina. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. §52. 285 He sloghe..þaire mours in ryme froist. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §81 In Frosty Mornings (such as we call Rime frosts) you shall finde drops of Dew upon the Inside of Glasse-windowes. 1790 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) iii. 922 Rime frosts or congealed mists hang pendent on the branches of trees. 1821 Examiner 18 Feb. 108/2 His locks, as the rime-frost hoary,..Seemed fairer than crowns of glory. 1886 Times 23 July 5/3 Bright sunshine by day was counteracted by rime frost at night. 1957 E. Blunden Poems of Many Years 298 Their poor limbs shook With the wind's or the rimefrost's blue stroke. 2003 S. Hynes Growing Seasons (2004) v. 99 The scarf across my face first damp from my steaming breath and then frozen to rime frost. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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