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
Denser grows the forest, more ragged the clefts; we seek a path through the rimy brushwood, our hands torn with the brambles....
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
The red sun stared unwinking at the East Then slept under a cloak of hodden gray; The rimy fields held the last light of day, A little tender yet.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
All the panes Are rich with rimy fret.
From In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)
The nights were still, the mornings rimy with hoarfrost.
From The Desert and the Sown by Foote, Mary Hallock
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