rime
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Is rime a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of rime?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative)countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (figurative)Examples: "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."countablefigurativelyuncountable
3. (meteorology)Synonyms: frost, hoar frostcountableuncountable
4. (meteorology)countableuncountable
5. (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.Examples: "When Tommy and Elspeth reached the Den the mist lay so thick that they had to feel their way though it to the Ailie, where they found Gavinia alone and scared. […] "As sure as death," she said, "there was some living thing standing there; I couldna see it for the rime, but I heard it breathing hard.""Britishcountableregionaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "―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, […]"transitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "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."figurativelytransitive
3. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive, Lincolnshire, archaic) Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.Synonyms: enumerateambitransitivearchaic
verb (English)
1. (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.Irelandraretransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.Examples: "[T]he ſevvet of oxen […] is alſo good againſt the inflammation of the eares, the ſtupidity and dulneſſe of the teeth, the running of the eyes, the vlcers and rimes of the mouth, and ſtiffneſſe of the neck."; "[T]hough birds have no Epiglottis, yet can they ſo contract the rime or chinck of their Larinx, as to prevent the admiſſion of vvet or dry ingeſted, […]"obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary