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[rime] 
noun
1. a coating of ice crystals forming an opaque white deposit, especially on grass or trees outside, formed by the rapid freezing of water droplets on a cold surface: "I was compelled to destroy the rime formations along the exterior of our cabin like a giddy child with a pocket full of bubble wrap."
2. a coating or surface, such as slime, likened to a frosty film or ice
transitive verb
3. to cover with rime or frost, or with a substance likened to rime or frost
Also: used as a variant of rhyme
Origin:
In Action:
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went
By the way of the Western Wall, so drear
On that winter night, and sought a gate -
The home, by Fate,
Of one I had long held dear.
And there, as I paused by her tenement,
And the trees shed on me their rime and hoar,
I thought of the man who had left her lone -
Him who made her his own
When I loved her, long before.
The rooms within had the piteous shine
The home-things wear which the housewife miss;
From the stairway floated the rise and fall
Of an infant's call,
Whose birth had brought her to this.
Her life was the price she would pay for that whine -
For a child by the man she did not love.
"But let that rest forever," I said,
And bent my tread
To the chamber up above.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). English poet and novelist. Son of a stonesmason.
Wessex Poems & Other Verses, Her Death and After, 1898 | |
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