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
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
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.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
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 Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
The wind died away, and the trees stood as if turned into bronze, moveless, save when a small branch gave way and dropped its rimy burden, or a squirrel leaped from one top to another.
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Hamlin Garland
"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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