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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

The rock, exhibiting a dearth of holds and coated with six inches of crumbly rime, did not look promising, but just left of the main prow was a shallow comer glazed with frozen meltwater.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the larger refrigerated chambers, hooks impaled butterflied swine and cattle rimed with frost, their pale ribs gleaming in the shallow light.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

In Sir Gawayne the rimeless long line is gathered into strophes, each of which concludes with four riming lines.

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

The rimes in all the stanzas must be identical in the corresponding lines, but the riming words must be different.

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

Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

From jigging veins of riming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war...

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

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

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

"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

The rimes in all the stanzas must be identical in the corresponding lines, but the riming words must be different.

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




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