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ram) Forms: 1 hrím, 3-4 rim, 4-5, 7 ryme, 5-6 rym (6 ryim), 7 reeme, 8 reem, 7-9 rhime (9 rhyme), 4- rime. [OE. hrím masc., = Fris. rym, MDu. and Du. rijm, MLG. riim, ON. and Icel. hrím (Norw., Sw., and Da. rim). Cf. OF. rime, rimée, which are no doubt of Teut. origin.]
a. Hoar-frost (see note); frozen mist. Also dial. a chill mist or fog.
Rare in ME., except in the comb. RIME-FROST. From 16th century chiefly Sc. and north., but revived in literary use at the end of the 18th cent. See also RIND n.3 In scientific use rime is now distinguished from hoar-frost (q.v.).
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c725 Corpus Gloss. 1653 Pruina, hrim. a1000 Phnix 60 (Gr.), ær ne hæl ne hrim hreosa to foldan. c1205 LAY. 28525 Folc vnimete ridinde & ganninde swa e rim [c 1275 e ren] falled adune.
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1513 DOUGLAS Æneis XIII. Prol. 31 Doun fallis the donk rym. 1549 Compl. Scot. (1872) 59 The hayr ryim is ane cald deu, the quhilk fallis in mysty vapours, and syne it fresis on the eird. 1587 L. MASCALL Govt. Cattle, Sheepe (1596) 214 Ye ought for to keepe them close, till the day haue taken the gellie or netty rime, from the earth. 1611 COTGR., Gresil,..reeme, or the white frost that hangs on trees. 1659 A. HAY Diary (S.H.S.) 210 A frost ryme all day. 1701 GREW Cosmol. Sacra I. iii. §33 In a Hoar-Frost, that which we call a Rime, is a Multitude of Quadrangular Prismes, exactly figured, but piled without any Order, one over another. 1789 E. DARWIN Bot. Gard. I. (1791) 47 Shake from their candied trunks the tinkling rime. 1820 SHELLEY Witch Atl. xliv, Moonlight splendour of intensest rime, With which frost paints the pines in winter time. 1864 C. GEIKIE Life in Woods vii. (1874) 133 As to the windows, the rime on them never thought of melting. 1895 [see HOAR-FROST]. 1912 W. DE LA MARE Listeners 23 At midnight 'neath a maze of stars I flame with glittering rime. 1921 A. E. M. GEDDES Meteorol. vi. 182 Hoar frost must not be confused with rime, which is an accumulation of frozen moisture on trees, &c., and is formed only during fog. 1947 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LI. 274/1 With a smaller rate of catch of water, at a lower temperature of the air, the water will freeze in the area of catch producing ice which has a porous structure, and a mat surface. This type is known as rime ice. 1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 144/3 When the saturation is higher than 140 percent, the growth of crystals is so rapid that rime (an amorphous deposit of frozen droplets) grows on the crystals and destroys their optical faces.
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pl. 1577 B. GOOGE Heresbach's Husb. III. (1586) 141 The Sunne hath drawne vppe the Rimes and hoare frostes from the Feeldes. 1641 BEST Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 77 If there came any white rymes, or frosty morninges. 1766 Complete Farmer s.v. Threshing 7 K4/2 In that time the mists and rimes, especially in a hilly country, will be driven into the stack.
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Comb. 1875 Wonders Phys. World I. iv. 128 The firs shake their rime-loaded boughs. 1891 KIPLING Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 204 It's North you may run to the rime-ringed sun. 1898 MERRIMAN Roden's Corner v, The dull houses were rime-covered. 1910 W. DE LA MARE Three Mulla-Mulgars iii. 46 The rime~laden branches of the trees.
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1618 M. BARET Horsemanship Ded. 4 This..Art of Horsemanship.., which hath beene so long frost-bitten with the congealing ryme of antient traditions. a1688 NARBOROUGH Voy. I. (1694) 29 The Ground and Rocks have a white Rhime of Salt-petre hanging on them. 1839 LONGFELLOW Voices of Nt., Prelude vi, Tales that have the rime of age.