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rime

1  [rahym] noun, verb, rimed, rim⋅ing.
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–noun
1. 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)
2. to cover with rime or hoarfrost.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME rim, OE hrīm; c. D rijm, ON hrīm

Related forms:
rimeless, adjective

rime

2  [rahym]
–noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), rimed, rim⋅ing.
rhyme.

rhyme

  [rahym] noun, verb, rhymed, rhym⋅ing.
–noun
1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.
2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.
4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
5. verse (def. 4).
–verb (used with object)
6. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.
7. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.
8. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.
–verb (used without object)
9. to make rhyme or verse; versify.
10. to use rhyme in writing verse.
11. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.
12. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.
—Idiom
13. rhyme or reason, logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.
Also, rime.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME rime < OF, deriv. of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row ≪ OHG rīm series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word

Related forms:
rhymer, noun
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rhyme also rime   (rīm)   
n.  

  1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

    1. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.

    2. Poetry or verse of this kind.

  3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold.

v.   rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing also rim·ing, rhymes also rimes

v.   intr.

  1. To form a rhyme.

  2. To compose rhymes or verse.

  3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse.

v.   tr.

  1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes.

  2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme.


[Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]
rime 1   (rīm)   
n.  

  1. A coating of ice, as on grass and trees, formed when extremely cold water droplets freeze almost instantly on a cold surface.

  2. A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: "A meal couldn't leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs" (James Fallows).

tr.v.   rimed, rim·ing, rimes
To cover with or as if with frost or ice: "heavy [shoes] rimed with mud and cement ... from the building site" (Seamus Deane).

[Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm.]
rim'y adj.
rime 2   (rīm)   
n.   & v.
Variant of rhyme.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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