'RIME' definitions:
Definition of 'rime'
(from WordNet)
noun
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime]
noun
Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme, rime]
verb
Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" [syn: rhyme, rime]
verb
Compose rhymes [syn: rhyme, rime]
Definition of 'Rime'
From: GCIDE
- Rime \Rime\, n. [L. rima.] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rime'
From: GCIDE
- Rime \Rime\, n. [AS. hr[imac]m; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hr[imac]m, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf. D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. r[imac]fo, hr[imac]fo.] White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. [1913 Webster]
- The trees were now covered with rime. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rime'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Rime'
From: GCIDE
- Rime \Rime\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A step or round of a ladder; a rung. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rime'
From: GCIDE
- Rime \Rime\, n. Rhyme. See Rhyme. --Coleridge. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'rime'
From: GCIDE
- Rhyme \Rhyme\, n. [OE. ryme, rime, AS. r[imac]m number; akin to OHG. r[imac]m number, succession, series, G. reim rhyme. The modern sense is due to the influence of F. rime, which is of German origin, and originally the same word.] [The Old English spelling rime is becoming again common. See Note under Prime.]
- 1. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- A ryme I learned long ago. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any. [1913 Webster]
- For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A word answering in sound to another word. [1913 Webster]
- Female rhyme. See under Female.
- Male rhyme. See under Male.
- Rhyme or reason, sound or sense.
- Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rime'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- arroyo,
- black frost,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- canyon,
- cavity,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crust,
- cut,
- cwm,
- defile,
- dell,
- dike,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- encrust,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fracture,
- frost,
- frost line,
- frost smoke,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hoar,
- hoarfrost,
- hole,
- incision,
- Jack Frost,
- joint,
- killing frost,
- kloof,
- leak,
- moat,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- pass,
- passage,
- ravine,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime frost,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- sharp frost,
- slit,
- slot,
- split,
- trench,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- white frost
Acronyms for 'rime'
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