rime

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When the preceding consonant as well as the vowel and following consonant agree the rime is called identical or echo rime, as reed: read_, perfection: infection_, ours: hours_.

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  1. noun A coating of ice, as on grass and trees, formed when extremely cold water droplets freeze almost instantly on a cold surface.
  2. noun A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: "A meal couldn't leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs” (James Fallows).
  3. transitive verb To cover with or as if with frost or ice: "heavy [shoes] rimed with mud and cement ... from the building site” (Seamus Deane).
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  1. Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm.

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  1. Also and more commonly rhyme, a spelling first used, alternating with rhime, about the year 1550, and due to the erroneous notion that the word is identical with rhythm (indeed even the spellings rhythm and rhithm were sometimes used for the proper word rime); properly only rime, a spelling which has never become wholly obsolete and is now widely used by persons who are aware of the blunder involved in the spelling rhyme. Early modern English rime, ryme, from Middle English rime, ryme, rim, rym, number, rime, verse, from Anglo-Saxon rīm, number (not in the senses ‘verse’ or ‘rime,’ which appear to be of Roman origin), = Old Saxon *rīm, number (in comp. unrīm = Anglo-Saxon unrīm, “numbers without number,” a great number), = OFries. rīm, tale, = Middle Dutch rijm, rijme, Dutch rijm = Middle Low German rīm, Low German riem, rim, rime, = Old High German rīm, erroneously hrīm, number, series, row, Middle High German rīm, verse, rime, German reim, rime, = Icelandic rīm, also rīma = Swedish Danish rim, rime; hence (from Old High German) Old French rime, French rime = Provencal rim, rima = Old Catalan rim = Spanish Portuguese Italian rima (Middle Latin rima), verse, rime. The sense of ‘poetic number,’ whence ‘verse,’ ‘a tale in verse,’ ‘agreement of terminal sounds,’ seems to have arisen in Roman, this meaning, with the thing itself, being unknown to the earlier Teutonic tongues. The transition of sense, though paralleled by a similar development of number and tale, was prob. due in part to association with L. rhythmus, Middle Latin also rhithmus, rithmus, ritmus, which, with the Roman forms, and later the English form rhythm, seems to have been constantly confused with rime, the two words having the sense ‘verse’ in common. Connection of Anglo-Saxon rīm, etc., with Greek ἀειθμός, number (see arithmetic), Irish Gaelic aireamh, number, = Welsh eirif, number, Irish rimh = Welsh rhif, number, is improbable.
  2. Also and more commonly rhyme (formerly also rhime), an erroneous spelling as with the noun; early modern English rime, ryme, from Middle English rimen, rymen, rime, from Anglo-Saxon rīman, number, count, reckon, = Dutch rijmen, rime, = Old High German rīman, number, count, count up, Middle High German rīmen, rime, fig. bring together, unite, German reimen, rime, = Swedish rimma = Danish rime = Old French and F. rimer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese rimar = Italian rimare (Middle Latin rimare), rime; from the noun: see rime, n.
  3. from Middle English rime, rīm, ryme, from Anglo-Saxon hrīm = Old Dutch D. rijm = Old High German *hrīm, *rīm, rīme, Middle High German *rīm (in verb rīmeln), German dial. reim, rein = Icelandic hrīm = Swedish Danish rim, frost; cf. Dutch rijp = Old High German hrīfo, rīfo, Middle High German rīfe, German reif, frost. Some erroneously connect the word with Greek κρυμός, κρύος, frost, κρύσταλλος, ice, from √ kru, be hard: see crystal, crude.
  4. from rime, n.
  5. from Old French rime, from Latin rima, a crack, fissure, cleft, chink.
 

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