rimy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rimy
before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account.
From Time Magazine Archive
She went down and ate her breakfast before a long window that showed a glittering, rimy world and in the foreground a plump, strutting robin.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
North and west he came by a rimy little steamer, as fast as coal could drive her, then overland more than fifteen hundred miles.
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Rex Ellingwood Beach
The nights were still, the mornings rimy with hoarfrost.
From The Desert and the Sown by Mary Hallock Foote
The wind died away, and the trees stood as if turned into bronze, moveless, save when a small branch gave way and dropped its rimy burden, or a squirrel leaped from one top to another.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Hamlin Garland
"I don't care who the man is, 'tis the rimiest morning we've had this fall."
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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