Meaning of Rime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
   countable, uncountable
2. Archaic spelling of rhyme (“word that rhymes with another”).
   alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable
3. A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.
   obsolete, transitive
4. A film or slimy coating.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
5. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
   countable, uncountable
6. White hair as an indication of old age.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
   countable, uncountable
8. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
   countable, uncountable
9. A cold fog or mist.
   British, countable, regional, uncountable

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Examples

“In a Hoar-Froſt, that vvhich vve call a Rime, is a Multitude of Quadrangular Priſmes, exactly figured, but piled vvithout any Order, one over another.”

“Sylphs! if vvith morn deſtructive Eurus ſprings, / O, claſp the Harebel vvith your velvet vvings; / Screen vvith thick leaves the Jaſmine as it blovvs, / And ſhake the vvhite rime from the ſhuddering Roſe; […]”

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

“The night had been heavy and lowering: but towards the morning it had changed to a slight frost: and the ground and the trees were now covered with rime.”

“But there are accents sweeter far / When Love leaps down our evening star, / Holds back the blighting wings of Time, / Melts with his breath the crusty rime, […]”

“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.”

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

“The cold within him [Ebenezer Scrooge] froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.”

“When Tommy and Elspeth reached the Den the mist lay so thick that they had to feel their way though it to the Ailie, where they found Gavinia alone and scared. […] "As sure as death," she said, "there was some living thing standing there; I couldna see it for the rime, but I heard it breathing hard."”

“Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1797–1798.”

“Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.”

“Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]”

“[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor I cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]”

“VVhen in the Chronicle of vvaſted time, / I ſee diſcriptions of the faireſt vvights, / And beautie making beautifull old rime, / In praiſe of Ladies dead, and louely Knights, […]”

“I thought, if I could dravv my paines, / Through Rimes vexation, I ſhould them allay, / Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.”

“Sometimes a man knovvs a place determinate, vvithin the compaſſe vvhereof he is to ſeek: […] as a man ſhould run over the Alphabet, to ſtart a rime.”

“[S]hould not all the world delight to honour this unfortunate and loyal follower of the Muses? May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of; […]”

“[T]he ſevvet of oxen […] is alſo good againſt the inflammation of the eares, the ſtupidity and dulneſſe of the teeth, the running of the eyes, the vlcers and rimes of the mouth, and ſtiffneſſe of the neck.”

“[T]hough birds have no Epiglottis, yet can they ſo contract the rime or chinck of their Larinx, as to prevent the admiſſion of vvet or dry ingeſted, […]”

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