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Webster 1913 Edition


Rime

Rime

,
Noun.
[L.
rima
.]
A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Sir T. Browne.

Rime

,
Noun.
[AS.
hrīm
; akin to D.
rijm
, Icel.
hrīm
, Dan.
rim
, Sw.
rim
; cf. D.
rijp
, G.
reif
, OHG.
rīfo
,
hrīfo
.]
White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
The trees were now covered with
rime
.
De Quincey.

Rime

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rimed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Riming
.]
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Rime

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rime

,
Noun.
Rhyme. See
Rhyme
.
Coleridge.
Landor.
☞ This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.

Rime

,
Verb.
I.
&
T.
To rhyme. See
Rhyme
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Rime

RIME

,
Noun.
[The deduction of this word from the Greek is a palpable error. The true orthography is rime or ryme; but as rime is hoar frost, and rhyme gives the true pronunciation, it may be convenient to continue the present orthography.
1.
In poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the terminating words or syllables of two verses, one of which succeeds the other immediately, or at no great distance.
For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense.
To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is necessary that the vowel, and the final articulations or consonants, should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in find and mind, new and drew, cause and laws.
2.
A harmonical succession of sounds.
The youth with songs and rhymes, some dance, and some haul the rope.
3.
Poetry; a poem.
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
4.
A word of sound to answer to another word.
Rhyme or reason, number or sense.
But from that time unto this season, I had neither rhyme nor reason.

Definition 2024


rime

rime

See also: rimé and ríme

English

Rime on trees.

Noun

rime (uncountable)

  1. (meteorology, uncountable) ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
    • De Quincey
      The trees were now covered with rime.
    • 1899, Knut Hamsun, Hunger, translated by George Egerton, Part III, page 167
      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.
  2. (meteorology, uncountable) a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  3. (uncountable) a film or slimy coating.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

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

Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (number), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (calculation, number), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (to regulate, count). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

Alternative forms

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
  2. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Landor to this entry?)
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
  3. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
Usage notes

In reading education, "rime" refers to the vowel and the letters that come after the eventual initial consonant(s) in a syllable. For example, sit, spit, and split all have the same rime (-it). Words that rhyme often share the same rime, such as rock and sock (-ock). However, words that rhyme do not always share the same rime, such as claim and fame (-aim and -ame). Additionally, words that share the same rime do not always rhyme, such as tough and though (-ough). Rhyme and rime are not interchangeable, although they often overlap.

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
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Danish

Verb

rime (imperative rim, infinitive at rime, present tense rimer, past tense rimede, perfect tense rimet)

  1. to rhyme

References


French

Etymology

From Old French rime, from Vulgar Latin *rimare, from Frankish *rīm or Old High German rīm (series, row, number). Akin to Old English rīm (row, series, number).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁim/
  • Rhymes: -im

Noun

rime f (plural rimes)

  1. rhyme

Verb

rime

  1. inflection of rimer:
    1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams


Italian

Noun

rime f

  1. plural of rima

Anagrams


Middle English

Etymology

From Old English rīm (number).

Noun

rime (plural rimes)

  1. number
    Þatt full wel iss bitacnedd Þurrh tale & rime off fowwerrtiȝ, Off fowwerr siþe tene. Ormulum, c1200
    (That full well is betokened thru tale and the number of forty, of four times ten.)

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Old French

Noun

rime f (oblique plural rimes, nominative singular rime, nominative plural rimes)

  1. story; tale; account

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Descendants


Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʁi.mi/

Verb

rime

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rimar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rimar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rimar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rimar

Spanish

Verb

rime

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rimar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rimar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rimar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rimar.