rime

[ rahym ]

/ raɪm /

noun

Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.Compare frost(def 3), glaze(def 17).

verb (used with object), rimed, rim·ing.

to cover with rime or hoarfrost.

Nearby words

rima oris, rima pudendi, rima vestibuli, rimaye, rimbaud, rime, rime riche, rime suffisante, rimer, rimester, rimfire

Origin of rime

before 900; Middle English rim, Old English hrīm; cognate with Dutch rijm, Old Norse hrīm

Related forms

rime·less, adjective

Definition for riming (2 of 3)

rime

[ rahym ]

/ raɪm /

noun, verb (used with or without object), rimed, rim·ing.

rhyme.

Definition for riming (3 of 3)

rhyme

or rime

[ rahym ]

/ raɪm /

noun

identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.

a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.

verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.

a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.

verse(def 4).

verb (used with object), rhymed, rhym·ing.

to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.

to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.

to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.

verb (used without object), rhymed, rhym·ing.

to make rhyme or verse; versify.

to use rhyme in writing verse.

to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.

to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.

Origin of rhyme

1250–1300; Middle English rime < Old French, derivative of rimer to rhyme < Gallo-Romance *rimāre to put in a row ≪ Old High German rīm series, row; probably not connected with Latin rhythmus rhythm, although current spelling (from c1600) apparently by association with this word

Related forms

rhym·er, nounin·ter·rhyme, verb (used without object), in·ter·rhymed, in·ter·rhym·ing.mis·rhymed, adjectivenon·rhyme, noun

non·rhymed, adjectivenon·rhym·ing, adjectiveout·rhyme, verb (used with object), out·rhymed, out·rhym·ing.un·rhyme, verb (used with object), un·rhymed, un·rhym·ing.well-rhymed, adjective

Can be confused

rhyme rhythm

Word story

The spelling and etymology of the noun rhyme fall between two stools. Its Middle English forms rym (in The Canterbury Tales, from around 1387), ryym (in Wycliffe’s Bible ), and rime derive from Anglo-French, Old French, and Middle French rime, ryme. Note the absence of h in all these spellings.
The source of the French rime is from an unrecorded Gallo-Romance verb rimāre “to set in a row,” a derivative of the Germanic noun rīm “number, series,” and possibly developing the senses “series of rhymed syllables” and “rhymed verse.”
The English spelling rhyme dates from around 1600 and shows the influence of the unrelated Latin rhetorical term rhythmus “a patterned sequence of sounds; measured flow of words or phrases in prose,” a borrowing from Greek rhythmós, which has the same meanings.

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Examples from the Web for riming

Obviously lines of this kind would easily break up into riming half-lines.
English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
Weber, l. 1887, we find seint Ja-m, riming with fr me (from me).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer
Others there are that have no composition at all; but a kind of tuning and riming fall in what they write.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I|Francis W. Halsey
One point about this poem is its very peculiar metre; the 5-line stanza, riming a a b b a, is certainly rare.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer

It contains a large proportion of riming lines, which is usually a sign in Shakspere of early work.
From Chaucer to Tennyson|Henry A. Beers

British Dictionary definitions for riming (1 of 3)

rime

/ (raɪm) /

noun

frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects

verb

(tr) to cover with rime or something resembling rime

Word Origin for rime

Old English hrīm; related to Dutch rijm, Middle High German rīmeln to coat with frost

British Dictionary definitions for riming (2 of 3)

rime

/ (raɪm) /

noun, verb

an archaic spelling of rhyme

British Dictionary definitions for riming (3 of 3)

rhyme

archaic rime

/ (raɪm) /

noun

identity of the terminal sounds in lines of verse or in words

a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound``while'' is a rhyme for ``mile''

a verse or piece of poetry having corresponding sounds at the ends of the linesthe boy made up a rhyme about his teacher

any verse or piece of poetry

rhyme or reason sense, logic, or meaningthis proposal has no rhyme or reason

verb

to use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound

to render (a subject) into rhyme

to compose (verse) in a metrical structure

Derived Forms

rhymeless or rimeless, adjective

Word Origin for rhyme

C12: from Old French rime, from rimer to rhyme, from Old High German rīm a number; spelling influenced by rhythm

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Culture definitions for riming

rhyme

A similarity of sound between words, such as moon, spoon, croon, tune, and June. Rhyme is often employed in verse.