Rime

Quick meaning: Rime is a noun meaning A film or slimy coating.

Meaning

A film or slimy coating.

More Meanings

1. White hair as an indication of old age.
2. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
3. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
4. (British, regional) A cold fog or mist.
5. To cover (something) with rime (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 or etymology 1, noun sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
6. To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
7. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).

Example Sentences

Tales that have the rime of age, / And chronicles of Eld.

And moonlight splendour of intensest rime, / With which frost paints the pines in winter time.

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.

Word Forms

• rimes
• riming
• rimed

Synonyms for rime

Depending on context, synonyms include frost, enumerate, hoarfrost, rhyme, hoar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hoarfrost, frost, hoar, rhyme, ice, time.

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