n. [ L. rima. ] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A step or round of a ladder; a rung. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. & t. To rhyme. See Rhyme. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. hrīm; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hrīm, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf. D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. rīfo, hrīfo. ] White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. [ 1913 Webster ]
The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A rhymer; a versifier. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. OF. rimoier. See Ryime. ] To compose in rhyme; to versify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Lays ] rimeyed in their first Breton tongue. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]