Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To compose in rime; versify.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To compose in rhyme; to versify.

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Examples

  • One expects that kind of rimey feeling in the sire season? —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • A young man, perhaps three or four years older than Wolf, lay on his side in the rimey crust of the playa.

    Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992

  • Our toboggans being so rimey to-day, and very often scraped the rime off so as it wouldn't draw so hard.

    Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador Mina Benson Hubbard 1913

  • Her smiles twin rows of pearls display * Chamomile-buds or rimey spray

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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