Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RIME
RIME
Definitions of RIME
- Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
- (figurative)
- (meteorology)
- (Britain, regional) A cold fog or mist.
- (transitive)
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
- (“word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end, etc.; (linguistics) the second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset”).
- (ambitransitive, Lincolnshire, archaic) Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.
- Synonym of ream
- (transitive, Ireland, rare) To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
- (obsolete) A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip. [from early 17th c.]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Followed by into: to probe, to pry.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
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