Rime Definition

rīm
rimed, rimes, riming
noun
rimes
A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.
American Heritage

Rhyme.

Webster's New World
A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film.
American Heritage

Frost.

Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
rimed, rimes, riming
To coat with rime.
Webster's New World
To cover with or as if with frost or ice.
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Other Word Forms of Rime

Noun

Singular:
rime
Plural:
rimes

Origin of Rime

  • Middle English rim from Old English hrīm

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rime Sentence Examples

  • Snowfall is greater than on Mounts Kenya and Kilimanjaro and ice rime forms in freezing mists on the mountains.

  • The element that they share is the rime unit.

  • But Daniel employs rime royal and terza rima, while some modern epistles have been cast in short iambic rhymed measures or in blank verse.

  • The Rime in Vita e Morte di Madonna Laura cannot become obsolete, for perfect metrical form has here been married to language of the choicest and the purest.

  • No story about Corneille is better known than that which tells of the trap between the two houses, and how Pierre, whose facility of versification was much inferior to his brother's, would lift it when hard bestead, and call out "Sans-souci, une rime!"

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Words Starting With

RRIRIM

Words Ending With

EMEIME

Unscrambles

rime

Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RI & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With ME

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With R4 Letter Words Ending With E