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Definition rime

Etymology 1

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hr?m, from Proto-Germanic *hr?maz, *hr?m? (“hoarfrost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to streak; graze; touch”). Cognate with Dutch rijm (“hoarfrost”), dialectal Bavarian Reim (“light frost, fow, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”), Latvian krèims (“cream”), Latin bruma (“winter solstice”).

Noun

rime (countable and uncountable, plural rimes)

1. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
2. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. A film or slimy coating.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rime, from Old English r?m (“number; the precise sum or aggregation of any collection of individual things or persons”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *r?y- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
2. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
3. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

Verb

rime (third-person singular simple present rimes, present participle riming, simple past and past participle rimed)

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Etymology 4

Latin rima.

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

1. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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