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Webster 1913 Edition
Rime
Rime
,Noun.
[L.
rima
.] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
Sir T. Browne.
Rime
,Noun.
[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.
The trees were now covered with
rime
. De Quincey.
Rime
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rimed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Riming
.] To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
Rime
,Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
Rime
,Noun.
Rhyme. See
Rhyme
. Coleridge.
Landor.
☞ This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rime
RIME
,Noun.
1.
In poetry, the correspondence of sounds in the terminating words or syllables of two verses, one of which succeeds the other immediately, or at no great distance.For rhyme with reason may dispense, and sound has right to govern sense.
To constitute this correspondence in single words or in syllables, it is necessary that the vowel, and the final articulations or consonants, should be the same, or have nearly the same sound. The initial consonants may be different, as in find and mind, new and drew, cause and laws.
2.
A harmonical succession of sounds.The youth with songs and rhymes, some dance, and some haul the rope.
3.
Poetry; a poem.He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
4.
A word of sound to answer to another word.Rhyme or reason, number or sense.
But from that time unto this season, I had neither rhyme nor reason.