rime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
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
Inflected forms:
form: rimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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; […]
And moonlight splendour of intensest rime, / With which frost paints the pines in winter time.
The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.
But there are accents sweeter far / When Love leaps down our evening star, / Holds back the blighting wings of Time, / Melts with his breath the crusty rime, […]
The raw rimes were not so pernicious as in the hollows, and the frosts were scarcely so severe.
I rose, put on my shoes, and began to walk up and down the floor to try and warm myself. I looked out; there was rime on the window; it was snowing.
gloss: A film or slimy coating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: White hair as an indication of old age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
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.
gloss: Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cold fog or mist.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
regional
uncountable
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."
gloss: To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 or etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
pos: verb
tags: 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, […]
gloss: To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
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.
gloss: Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: berime
rimed
rimester
rimy
riming
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: заскрежавам
roman: zaskrežavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: заскрежа
roman: zaskreža
lang: Finnish
word: huurruttaa