Definitions
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- noun The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).
- adjective rare That
rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something. - noun Ireland The
action orprocess ofdying red-brown bysteeping inwater withalder twigs. - verb Present participle of
rime .
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- adjective having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Nicholson's poems are a kind of riming journal of his heart.
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These plate-shaped crystals showed evidence of what's known as riming - the accumulation of liquid water - whereas ice particles elsewhere in the cloud showed little or no riming. "
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These plate-shaped crystals showed evidence of what's known as riming - the accumulation of liquid water - whereas ice particles elsewhere in the cloud showed little or no riming. "
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The temperatures through a fairly deep layer of the atmosphere were above -4 C, resulting in a lot of supercooled liquid water within the cloud which produced riming.
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The guru/speaker of Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Noble New" from Songs of the Soul offers eight loving commands to devotees in an octet that consists of two quatrains; the first quatrain features two riming couplets, and second quatrain has the traditional rime scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet, ABAB.
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Ai spesshullee laiks teh riming ov “splort” and “cohort.”
Furwall… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Those pesky questions involving water, natural landscapes and social structures are somehow more important to the bilingual, binational towns riming the southern edge of the United States than who garners votes to Washington.
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Those pesky questions involving water, natural landscapes and social structures are somehow more important to the bilingual, binational towns riming the southern edge of the United States than who garners votes to Washington.
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Then it spasmed into rigidity, and then froze, literally, frost riming all over its body.
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I could speak of Chicago lyrically, riming "bored lookin 'skaters" with "some folks'll see friendship as favors", something like that.
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