rimy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rimy
before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime 1, -y 1
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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
All day they rush along—out of the rimy hazes of morning into the olive-colored clouds of evening again—with huge, loud-grinding rumble, and do arrive in time at Gilge.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd
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 Bertram Mitford
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 John Freeman
It is not far hence, By mile measure, that the mere stands, Over which hang rimy groves.
From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William Joseph Long
"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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