to rime

Examples

• All

• Hoarfrost thickly rimed every tree and bush.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Their bristly fur was rimed with frost.

  Academic text (2009)

• In three steps, I am at the frost-rimed window.

  Fiction book (2002)

• ♪ May you beautifully rime Your evetime song, ye singers ♪

  Little Women (1994)

• Now that he was engaging in such a practice, however, his stubble was rimed with a white frost, so that he seemed to be aging before his observers' eyes.

  Fiction book (2001)

• " We're moving faster," Alfred said, licking his lips that must be rimed with salt to judge by the sweat trickling down the man's cheeks.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A cloyingly sweet-smelling sweat rimed her forehead, matted her long, tangled, blond hair.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I glanced at p126 the frost riming the edge of the leaded-glass panes and thought that that was k; his ungloved hands were warm, a highly unusual condition for anyone's hands at this time of year.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Emily had given him, and he got into some shapeless trousers and a jacket so old and rimed with dirt he could pass without comment in the poorest of tenements or rookeries, the grimmest of East End docks or public houses.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The poet wished to rime each line of her ballad with elegance and flair.

Synonyms

R

to rhyme

vsto rime

53 1.3

To have the same end sound as another word

is the archaic form also meaning to write poems with matching line endings

R

to rhyme

vsto rime

31 2.5

To write lines so their ends have the same sound

also refers to simply sharing end sounds rather than composing poetry

Surface Forms

Etymology