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rime

[rahym] / raɪm /
NOUN
frost
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At the rime, Qantas said it had agreed to pay the fine and that the ruling holds it accountable for actions that caused "real harm" to its employees.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue?

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2022

Standing around amid the fumaroles, bison are sheeted with a hundred pounds of rime and icicles.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2019

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate Nov. 29, 2018

Is like a monster to me, and if I hear it in a dream, then I know is rime to wake up and listen to the rooster.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2023

On the beach the sand was frozen in crusts and rimed with frost.

From The Guardian Mar. 23, 2021

Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.

From Scientific American Nov. 18, 2019

But there is consummate shrewdness in some of the things Vishnu-sharman related, putting his epigrams now into tales within tales, now into rimed quotations from religious writ.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the deep freeze he fetched rimed cartons of beans and strawberries, twenty years old.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2023

Amant. i 1908, we find pitt riming with witt, whereas in the same, v 4945, pet rimes with let.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Mr. Swinburne has reintroduced the old word-form "roundel," to distinguish this style of rondeau, of his own devising, with nine long lines, riming aba, bab, aba, the refrain riming also with the b lines.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Stareden should perhaps be stradden, or some such form, rightly riming to ladden, 1037.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

Mr Morris suggests that the riming words are adoun and croune.

From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown

We've our business to attend Day's duties, bend back the bow in dreams as we may till the end rimes in the taut string with the sending.

From Time Magazine Archive

"His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient rimes ... had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

In the first part, however, he put rimes only at the ends of the verses, whereas later he introduced internal rime, thus resolving the verse into short lines of three stresses.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald




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