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Rimy

adjective
1.
Covered with frost.  Synonyms: frosty, rimed.  "Hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost"






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"Rimy" Quotes from Famous Books



... I recollect the kind of day it was! I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar-frost ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a spluttering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin

... brakemen re-entered as if blown in by the blast, and a vapor, white as a shower of flour, filled the door-way, behind them. Occasionally as I cleared a space for a peephole through the rimy panes, I caught momentary glimpses of a level, treeless earth, desolate as the polar ocean swept by ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... rimy evening when he set out to look for Giles. The woods seemed to be in a cold sweat; beads of perspiration hung from every bare twig; the sky had no color, and the trees rose before him as haggard, gray phantoms, whose days of substantiality were passed. Melbury ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy



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