Synonyms for rime

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rahym

Phonetic Transcription : raɪm

Définition of rime

Origin : "hoarfrost," Old English hrim, from Proto-Germanic *khrima- (cf. Old Norse hrim, Dutch rijm, German Reif). Old French rime is of Germanic origin. Rare in Middle English, surviving mainly in Scottish and northern English, revived in literary use late 18c.

noun frost

Example sentences :

Rime filled the air, and soon their clothing was coated with a film of frost.
Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace

By the rime on his wings he has gone into the line of frost.
Extract from : « The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said » by Padraic Colum

Its authors were poets who were not spoiled by the curse of rime.
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

The same is true of his wonderful "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson

The latter word, formerly pronounced to rime with cough, is from Du.
Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley

The rime was on the grass and trees, and the country most delicious.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

Garth, under his sail-cloth at the door of the tent, awoke covered with rime.
Extract from : « Two on the Trail » by Hulbert Footner

The rime was deposited on them freely, and was easily brushed off.
Extract from : « The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 » by Roald Amundsen

John Gilpin's wife does not hesitate to sacrifice grammar for the sake of rime.
Extract from : « English Narrative Poems » by Various

It'll do; yo need'n rime no moor, for it's better t'in lickly.
Extract from : « Lancashire Sketches » by Edwin Waugh

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