rimy
Americanadjective
adjective
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
All day they rush along—out of the rimy hazes of morning into the olive-colored clouds of evening again—with huge, loud-grinding rumble, and do arrive in time at Gilge.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
A murmur of waves breaking on the beach was upborne to his ears, as he strode rapidly on through the rimy heather plants and the chill, bracing whiff of the salt sea.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
The teamster arrives with oxen in full steam, and rimy with frozen breath about their indignant nostrils.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
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 George Eliot
"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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