RIME

Rime

Rime is a coating of ice: Hard rime, white ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects, such as trees, Soft rime, similar to hard rime, but feathery and milky in appearance

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rime

Noun

  1. ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
  2. a coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  3. a film or slimy coating.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Number.
  2. rhyme
  3. the second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Noun (etymology 4)

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

Verb

  1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Verb (etymology 2)



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