rime \rime\, v. i. imp.  p. p. rimed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   riming.
   to freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
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see also:
rimed riming 

rime \rime\, n. etymol. uncertain.
   a step or round of a ladder; a rung.
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rime \rime\, n.
   rhyme. see rhyme. --coleridge. --landor.
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   note: this spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is
         coming into use again.
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see also:
rhyme 

rime \rime\, v. i.  t.
   to rhyme. see rhyme.
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see also:
rhyme 

rime \rime\, n. l. rima.
   a rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. --sir
   t. browne.
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rime \rime\, n. as. hrimacm; akin to d. rijm, icel.
   hrimacm, dan. rim, sw. rim; cf. d. rijp, g. reif, ohg.
   rimacfo, hrimacfo.
   white frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
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         the trees were now covered with rime.    --de quincey.
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rhyme \rhyme\, n. oe. ryme, rime, as. rimacm number; akin to
   ohg. rimacm 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.
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            a ryme i learned long ago.            --chaucer.
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            he knew
            himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. --milton.
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   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.
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            for rhyme with reason may dispense,
            and sound has right to govern sense.  --prior.
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   3. verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each
      other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
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   4. a word answering in sound to another word.
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   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
see also:
rime prime female rhyme female male rhyme male 
rhyme or reason rhyme royal 

rime
     n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit especially on objects
          outside syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost
     2: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
        especially final sounds syn: rhyme
     v 1: be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last
          syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" syn: rhyme
     2: compose rhymes syn: rhyme
see also:
frost hoar hoarfrost rhyme 

83 moby thesaurus words for "rime":
   jack frost, 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, 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

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rime, n.  agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad.  the
verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull.  usually
and wickedly spelled "rhyme."