I. ˈrīm noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm; akin to Old Saxon hrīpo frost, Old High German hrīffo, rīffo, Middle High German rīm, Old Norse hrīm, hrīmi frost, Latvian kreims cream, Lithuanian krėna
1. or rime frost : frost 1c(1)
2. : an accumulation of granular ice tufts on the windward sides of exposed objects slightly resembling hoarfrost but formed only from undercooled fog or cloud and always built out directly against the wind
3. : crust , incrustation
rime of snow — D.C.Peattie
dust settled down … making a gray rime on eyebrows, nose — Thomas Wood †1950
a rime of alkali on flatland
II. transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to cover with or as if with rime
hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost — William Faulkner
age had rimed his beard — Kay Rogers
wagons rimed with clay — Hamilton Basso
III.
variant of rhyme
IV. ˈrīm noun
( -s )
Etymology: Latin rima — more at row
: chink , crack , fissure
V.
dialect chiefly England
variant of ream