rime

Meanings

1. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
2. A film or slimy coating.
3. White hair as an indication of old age.
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.
6. A cold fog or mist.

1. To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 or etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
2. To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
3. Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.

1. Archaic spelling of rhyme (“word that rhymes with another”).
2. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).

1. Archaic spelling of rhyme.

1. Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.

1. Synonym of ream.
2. To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
3. To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.

1. To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.

1. A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.

1. Followed by into: to probe, to pry.

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”). The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.) Cognates * Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”)) * Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”)) * Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”)) * Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal)) * Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”)) * Old Saxon hrīm * Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim) * West Frisian rime, rym

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