rimy
Americanadjective
adjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of rimy
before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Pallid pedestrians shuffle along rimy pavements hoping that the next chunk of snow to shear off a tenement roof doesn’t have their name on it.
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Denser grows the forest, more ragged the clefts; we seek a path through the rimy brushwood, our hands torn with the brambles....
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Yes, he seemed dreadfully ill, hardly able to stand, in fact; for presently he sank down into the rimy grass in a half-faint.
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He knew that heavy ice is generally opaque and white, but this was transparent, with rimy streaks on it that ran to and fro in irregular patterns.
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And the well-known smell of the rimy vegetables was to the adventuresome Jane an almost irresistible call to the open.
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