Hoarfrost (noun)
Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.
“dew|glaze|rime”
Rime (noun)
Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
“hoarfrost|frost”
Rime (noun)
A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
Rime (noun)
A film or slimy coating.
Rime (noun)
Number.
Rime (noun)
Rhyme.
“Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.”
Rime (noun)
The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
“onset”
“nucleus|coda”
Rime (noun)
A step of a ladder; a rung.
Rime (noun)
A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Rime (verb)
To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rime (verb)
obsolete form of rhyme
Rime (noun)
frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapour in cloud or fog.
Rime (noun)
hoar frost
“the rime was thick and crisp on the grass”
Rime (noun)
archaic spelling of rhyme
Rime (verb)
cover (an object) with hoar frost
“he does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard”
Rime (verb)
archaic spelling of rhyme
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