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[rahym]

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noun

Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object. Compare frost (def. 2), glaze (def. 17).

verb (used with object)

to cover with rime or hoarfrost.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English rim, Old English hrīm; cognate with Dutch rijm, Old Norse hrīm

Related forms

rime·less, adjective

Example Sentences

Chunks of rime ice were crashing against the observatory windows.

The droplets coat snow crystals with still more crystals, and that frost is called rime.

Rime ice hangs in trees, on sleds, and laces the net fence-a portable corral into which the reindeer will be herded.

Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), rimed, rim·ing.

rhyme.

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World English Dictionary

rhyme or rime (raɪm)

—n
1.	identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words
2.	a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound: ``while'' is a rhyme for ``mile''
3.	a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the lines: the boy made up a rhyme about his teacher
4.	any verse or piece of poetry
5.	rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaning: this proposal has no rhyme or reason

—vb
6.	to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound
7.	to render (a subject) into rhyme
8.	to compose (verse) in a metrical structure

[C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm]

rime or rime

—n

—vb

[C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm]

'rhymeless or rime

—*adj*

'rimeless or rime

—*adj*

rime¹ (raɪm)

—n
1.	frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects

—vb
2.	(tr) to cover with rime or something resembling rime

[Old English hrīm; related to Dutch rijm, Middle High German rīmeln to coat with frost]

rime² (raɪm)

—n, —vb
	an archaic spelling of rhyme

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Word Origin & History

rime

"hoarfrost," O.E. hrim, from P.Gmc. *khrima- (cf. O.N. hrim, Du. rijm, Ger. Reif). O.Fr. rime is of Gmc. origin. Rare in M.E., surviving mainly in Scottish and northern Eng., revived in literary use late 18c.

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"What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much more of Dryden, and Pope, and Gray! Our summer of English poetry, like the Greek and Latin before it, seems well advanced towards its fall, and laden with the fruit and foliage of the season, with bright autumnal tints, but soon the winter will scatter its myriad clustering and shading leaves, and leave only a few desolate and fibrous boughs to sustain the snow and rime, and creak in the blasts of age."

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