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rime
/ɹaɪm/
verb 9noun 8
Collocations
5ADJ.
ancient, covered, north, pale
VERB + RIME
call, called, eye, vvhite, wrote
RIME + NOUN
davvn, multitude
PREP.
from, in, into, with
ADV.
originally
Definitions
noun
1
Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
In a Hoar-Froſt, that vvhich vve call a Rime, is a Multitude of Quadrangular Priſmes, exactly figured, but piled vvithout any Order, one over another.
Sylphs! if vvith morn deſtructive Eurus ſprings, / O, claſp the Harebel vvith your velvet vvings; / Screen vvith thick leaves the Jaſmine as it blovvs, / And ſhake the vvhite rime from the ſhuddering Roſe; […]
2
A film or slimy coating.
3
White hair as an indication of old age.
Tales that have the rime of age, / And chronicles of Eld.
The cold within him [Ebenezer Scrooge] froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
4
Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
5
A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
verb
1
To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1 sense 1 or etymology 1 sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
―No more ſhall hoary Boreas, iſſuing forth / VVith Eurus, lead the tempeſts of the North; / Rime the pale Davvn, or veil'd in flaky ſhovvers / Chill the ſvveet boſoms of the ſmiling Hours.
[T]he hoar was a blanching on post and hedge, riming the dykes, […]
2
To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
Oh, London, London! […] the mornings silvery gray, and the multitudinous monuments rimed by years, thunder of hoofs in ways without end, and the silence of mighty parks—Bud lay awake in the nights to think of them.
3
Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
noun
1
Archaic spelling of rhyme (“word that rhymes with another”).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1797–1798.
Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
2
The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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In a Hoar-Froſt, that vvhich vve call a Rime, is a Multitude of Quadrangular Priſmes, exactly figured, but piled vvithout any Order, one over another.
Wiktionary02
Sylphs! if vvith morn deſtructive Eurus ſprings, / O, claſp the Harebel vvith your velvet vvings; / Screen vvith thick leaves the Jaſmine as it blovvs, / And ſhake the vvhite rime from the ſhuddering
Wiktionary03
And moonlight splendour of intensest rime, / With which frost paints the pines in winter time.
Wiktionary04
―No more ſhall hoary Boreas, iſſuing forth / VVith Eurus, lead the tempeſts of the North; / Rime the pale Davvn, or veil'd in flaky ſhovvers / Chill the ſvveet boſoms of the ſmiling Hours.
Wiktionary05
[T]he hoar was a blanching on post and hedge, riming the dykes, […]
Wiktionary06
Oh, London, London! […] the mornings silvery gray, and the multitudinous monuments rimed by years, thunder of hoofs in ways without end, and the silence of mighty parks—Bud lay awake in the nights to
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