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
The moon shone brightly on the garden, while the rimy frost, reflecting its light, dispelled the darkness, and thus I was able to see the face of my love and the flash of her eyes.
From The Birthright by Hocking, Joseph
IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill—on a rimy morning in departing November—Adam and Dinah were married.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
And the well-known smell of the rimy vegetables was to the adventuresome Jane an almost irresistible call to the open.
From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley
Not far hence it is, reckoning by miles, that the Mere standeth, and over it hang rimy groves; a wood with clenched roots overshrouds the water.”
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
"I don't care who the man is, 'tis the rimiest morning we've had this fall."
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
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