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rimy

American  
[rahy-mee] / ˈraɪ mi /

adjective

rimier, rimiest
  1. covered with rime.


rimy British  
/ ˈraɪmɪ /

adjective

  1. coated with rime

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of rimy

before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime 1, -y 1


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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

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 ferocious elemental warfare.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

It was only yesterday that I last climbed this tree and ate the rich rimy fruit frosted with a Christmas snow.

From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Margaret Ashmun

The nights were still, the mornings rimy with hoarfrost.

From The Desert and the Sown by Mary Hallock Foote

A rimy frost had come upon every twig and bush and tree, and in the light of the moon the ice crystals sparkled as though the spirits had scattered myriads of precious stones everywhere.

From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking

"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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