Rime

[raɪm]

Definition

(n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

(n.) White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

(v. i.) To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

(n.) A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

(n.) Rhyme. See Rhyme.

(v. i. & t.) To rhyme. See Rhyme.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Hoar-frost.

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Definition

n. hoar-frost: frozen dew.—adj. Rī′my.

n. a rent chink or fissure—also Rī′ma:—pl. Rī′m?/span>.—adj. Rīmose′ full of rimes or chinks: having numerous minute fissures mostly parallel like the bark of a tree.—n. Rimos′ity state of being rimose or chinky.—adj. Rī′mous rimose.

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