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
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 Karl Emil Franzos
Splashes of red-gold fill all the fields, and small birds, flying amid the rimy foliage, shake sparkles of fire from their careless wings.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
The word to be noted here is the word rimy, i.e. covered with rime or hoar-frost.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
The nights were still, the mornings rimy with hoarfrost.
From The Desert and the Sown by Mary Hallock Foote
"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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