frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects
verb
2. (transitive)
to cover with rime or something resembling rime
Word origin
Old English hrīm; related to Dutch rijm, Middle High German rīmeln to coat with frost
rime in British English2
(raɪm)
noun, verb
an archaic spelling of rhyme
rime in American English1
(raɪm)
noun, verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: rimed or ˈriming
rhyme
Derived forms
rimer (ˈrimer)
noun
Word origin
sp. preferred by many as historically correct: see rhyme
rime in American English2
(raɪm)
noun
1.
frost (sense 3)
verb transitiveWord forms: rimed or ˈriming
2.
to coat with rime
Word origin
ME < OE hrim, akin to ON < IE base *krei-, to touch lightly > OE hrinan, to touch
Examples of 'rime' in a sentence
rime
"Her eyes were fixed on his face and, as an awful doubt rose in her mind, they clouded as if a delicate rime of frost had covered them.
Jenkins, Geoffrey A DAYSTAR OF FEAR (1995)
They reached the steps that led up toward the yard where the gallows stood, but this rime they passed them by.
Raymond E. Feist RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA (1995)
All related terms of 'rime'
rhyme
If one word rhymes with another or if two words rhyme , they have a very similar sound. Words that rhyme with each other are often used in poems .
rime riche
rhyme between words or syllables that are identical in sound, as in command / demand , pair/ pear
terze rime
a verse form of Italian origin consisting of a series of tercets in which the middle line of one tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the next
terza rima
a verse form of Italian origin consisting of a series of tercets in which the middle line of one tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the next
full rhyme
rhyme between words in which the stressed vowels and any succeeding consonants are identical although the consonants preceding the stressed vowels may be different, as between part/ hart or believe / conceive
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
→ the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
a long poem of the supernatural (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which a sailor brings down a curse on himself and his shipmates by wantonly killing an albatross