rime

Meaning

Noun

1. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
2. A film or slimy coating.
3. White hair as an indication of old age.
4. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
5. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
6. A cold fog or mist.

Verb

1. To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
2. To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
3. Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.

Verb

Archaic spelling of rhyme.

Verb

Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.

Verb

1. Synonym of ream
2. Synonym of ream

Verb

To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.

Verb

Followed by into: to probe, to pry.

Synonyms

hoarfrost

rhyme

frost

hoar

hoar-frost

poetry

white frost

hoar frost

poem

poesy

sludge

snow

❄️

stanza

verse

versification

hendecasyllable

silver frost

hard rime

brim

frosty rime

edge

end rhyme

fringe

glaze

ice

🧊

icicle

mist

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rim

Inherited from Old English: hrīm

Cognate with Middle Dutch: riim

Cognate with Dutch: rijm

Cognate with Danish: rim

Cognate with Old French: rime

Cognate with Middle French: rime

Cognate with Anglo-Norman: rime

Cognate with Old High German: rīm

Cognate with Middle High German: rīm

Cognate with Bavarian: Reim

Cognate with Old Norse: hrím

Cognate with Icelandic: hrím

Cognate with Norwegian: rim

Cognate with Old Saxon: hrīm

Cognate with Swedish: rim

Cognate with Western Frisian: rime

Inherited from Middle English: rimen

Inherited from Old English: rīman

Cognate with Middle English: rime

Inherited from Old English: rīmen

Cognate with Irish: ruaimnigh

Cognate with Old Irish: rúamnaigid

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).
The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.)
cognates
* Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”))
* Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”))
* Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal))
* Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old Saxon hrīm
* Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim)
* West Frisian rime, rym