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
The brink of the cliff, the brave, eager face and love-lit eyes, the swaying grass bents, now rimy with misty scud, all danced before his vision.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
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
Over the crisp and rimy grass approaches a small, fair woman, all a-trembling, who has no sooner reached the spot, than she swoons and loses her breath.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
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 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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