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 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
She went down and ate her breakfast before a long window that showed a glittering, rimy world and in the foreground a plump, strutting robin.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
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
One bitter cold morning, long before the first light of day began to filter through the rimy atmosphere, we heard the crunch of feet pass our door, and a komatik slipped by.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Wallace, Dillon
"I don't care who the man is, 'tis the rimiest morning we've had this fall."
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
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