rime
rime is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne.
- 2.White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.
- 3.To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
- 4.A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
- 5.Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.
- 6.To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abra
- absence
- abysm
- abyss
- barranca
- between
- breach
- breachy
- break
- caesura
- canon
- chap
- chasm
- chink
- cleft
- clove
- crack
- cranny
- creek
- crevasse
- crevice
- cut
- defile
- dike
- far
- fissure
- flaw
- frith
- furrow
- gap
- gape
- gash
- gorge
- gulch
- gulf
- gully
- ha-ha
- hiatus
- hole
- incompleteness
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is rime.
- What is a rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne called?
- What is white frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey called?
- What is rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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