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rime

[rahym] / raɪm /
NOUN
frost
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At the rime, Qantas said it had agreed to pay the fine and that the ruling holds it accountable for actions that caused "real harm" to its employees.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue?

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2022

Standing around amid the fumaroles, bison are sheeted with a hundred pounds of rime and icicles.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2019

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate Nov. 29, 2018

“Any rime atall is too soon for me.”

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2023

On the beach the sand was frozen in crusts and rimed with frost.

From The Guardian Mar. 23, 2021

Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.

From Scientific American Nov. 18, 2019

Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here at last the snow crown began,- Sky's weathered stones were rimed with frost, and long spears of ice hung from the slopes above.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2023

The martial sound with which this distinguished name strikes a modern ear is due to historical association, assisted, as I have somewhere read, by its riming with rapier!

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Not for him the sweet felicities of the mincing phraser or the dreamy languors of the riming troubadour.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

In Jackaro, page 9, 3abcb indicates a quatrain riming alternately, with three stressed syllables in each line.

From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Combs, Josiah Henry

The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

We've our business to attend Day's duties, bend back the bow in dreams as we may till the end rimes in the taut string with the sending.

From Time Magazine Archive

"His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient rimes ... had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But none of these has left any enunciation of theory having power to thrill the ear and haunt the memory like the rimes of this young untrained recruit, John Keats.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney




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