rime

Etymology 1

From Middle English rime, ryme, rim, from Old English hrīm, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm, from Proto-Germanic *hrīmaz, *hrīmą (“hoarfrost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to streak; graze; touch”). Cognate with Dutch rijm (“hoarfrost”), dialectal Bavarian Reim (“light frost, fog, dew”), Danish rim (“hoarfrost”), Norwegian rim (“hoarfrost”).

noun

1. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
2. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. A film or slimy coating.

verb

1. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rime, from Old English rīm (“number; the precise sum or aggregation of any collection of individual things or persons”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmą (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Influenced in meaning by Old French rime from the same Germanic source.

noun

1. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
   But there are accents sweeter far When Love leaps down our evening star, Holds back the blighting wings of Time, 1846, Walter Savage Landor, poem
   Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
2. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
   Meronyms: nucleus, coda

verb

1. Obsolete form of rhyme.

Etymology 3

Unknown

noun

1. A step of a ladder; a rung.

Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle English rim, from Latin rima (“cleft, crack”).

noun

1. (obsolete) A rent or long aperture; a chink, fissure, or crack.