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rime

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1. rime - Noun

2. rime - Verb

Meaning

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rhyme. See Rhyme.

To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness. Thomas Hardy

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Charles Dickens

I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime. X. J. Kennedy

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. Thomas Hood

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ye breed of the gouk, ye have not a rime but ane. Scottish Proverb

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