rimy

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It was a misty, rimy, clammy morning, and a thick fog was lying over the Channel Almost before the train stopped I saw Father Dan, with his coat collar turned up, waiting for me on the platform.

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  1. Riming. Playing rhimy plays with scurvy heroes. Tom Brown, Works, III. 39. (Davies.)
  2. Covered with rime or hoar-frost. But now the clear bright Moon her zenith gains, And rimy without speck extend the plains. Wordsworth, Evening Walk.
  3. Frosty; cold. In little more than a month after that meeting on the hill—on a rimy morning in departing November—Adam and Dinah were married. George Eliot, Adam Bede, lv.

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  1. Usually rhymy; from rime + -y.
  2. from Middle English *rimy, from Anglo-Saxon hrīmig, rimy, frosty, from hrīm, rime, frost: see rime.
 

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