RIMED

frosty, rimed, rimy

(adjective) covered with frost; ā€œa frosty glassā€; ā€œhedgerows were rimed and stiff with frostā€-Wm.Faulkner

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

rimed

Covered in frost

Verb

rimed

simple past tense and past participle of rime

Anagrams

• MRIed, dimer, mired

Source: Wiktionary


RIME

Rime, n. Etym: [L. rima.]

Definition: A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne.

Rime, n. Etym: [AS. hrim; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hrim, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf. D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. rifo, hrifo.]

Definition: White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

Rime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Riming.]

Definition: To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Rime, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]

Definition: A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rime, n.

Definition: Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor.

Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.

Rime, v. i. & t.

Definition: To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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