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Rime

noun
1.
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside).  Synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost.
2.
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds).  Synonym: rhyme.
verb
(past & past part. rimed; pres. part. riming)
1.
Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable.  Synonym: rhyme.
2.
Compose rhymes.  Synonym: rhyme.






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"Rime" Quotes from Famous Books



... rime being essential elements of every poem in which they are used, I have sought to respect ...
— Rampolli • George MacDonald

... Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is an imaginative expression of that divine love which embraces all creatures, from the highest to the lowest, of the consequences of the severance of man's soul from this animating principle of the universe, and of those spiritual threshings by and through which it ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... was kicked open, and Del Bishop staggered in with a load of fire-wood. His breath had so settled on his face in a white rime that he could not speak. Such a condition was ever a hardship with the man, so he thrust his face forthwith into the quivering heat above the stove. In a trice the frost was started and the thawed streamlets dancing madly on the white-hot surface beneath. ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London

... as winter will, Bringing dark days, frost and rime; But the apple is in vogue At the Christmas-time; At the merry Christmas-time Folks are full of glee; Then they bring out apples prime, ...
— Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys • Unknown

... type of thought in which he has been brought up, he must have something with which to compare it. He must stand at a distance, and try to judge it as he would judge a type of doctrine presented to him for the first rime. And in the accomplishment of this task he can find no greater aid than the study ...
— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton


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