rime

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

rime, n. [L. rima.].

 A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]

rime, n. [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.  [1913 Webster]
"The trees were now covered with rime."  [1913 Webster]

rime, v. i. 

 To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.  [1913 Webster]

rime, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

 A step or round of a ladder; a rung.  [1913 Webster]

rime, n. 

 Rhyme. See Rhyme.  Coleridge. Landor.  [1913 Webster]
" This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again."  [1913 Webster]

rime, v. i. & t. 

 To rhyme. See Rhyme.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rime, n. & v.
--n.
1 frost, esp. formed from cloud or fog.
2 poet. hoar-frost.
--v.tr. cover with rime.

rime, archaic var. of RHYME.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

rime

n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled "rhyme."

THESAURUS

rime

Jack Frost, abysm, abyss, arroyo, black frost, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crust, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, encrust, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, frost, frost line, frost smoke, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hoar, hoarfrost, hole, incision, joint, killing frost, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime frost, rupture, scissure, seam, sharp frost, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadi, white frost

ROGET THESAURUS

rime

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.