rime

Plural: rimes

Noun

ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost.
A film or slimy coating.
White hair as an indication of old age.
Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
A cold fog or mist.
Archaic spelling of rhyme (“word that rhymes with another”).
The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on (as opposed to the onset).
A narrow aperture or opening; a chink, a crack, a fissure; a rent, a rip.

Verb

Verb Forms: rimed, riming, rimes

To form rime (hoarfrost) on a surface; to rhyme.
be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
compose rhymes
To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to coat.
Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
Archaic spelling of rhyme.
Followed by up: to count (something); to number, to reckon.
Synonym of ream.
To enlarge (a hole), especially using a tool such as a reamer.
Synonym of ream.
To remove debris from inside (something, such as a freshly bored hole or a pipe) using a tool.
To dye (wool or yarn) reddish-brown by boiling or soaking in water with alder twigs.
Followed by into: to probe, to pry.

Examples

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1797–1798.
The Scrabble expert could make any two words RIME, even across the board.

Origin / Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”).
The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did not survive into modern English, was behrīman.)
Cognates
* Middle Dutch riim, rijm, rīm (modern Dutch rijm (“hoar frost”))
* Old Danish *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Danish rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old French rime, rimee (Middle French rime, rimee (“hoar frost”), Anglo-Norman rime, rimee (“hoar frost”))
* Old High German rīm (Middle High German rīm, Bavarian Reim (“dew; fog; light frost”) (dialectal))
* Old Norse hrím (Icelandic hrím, Norwegian rim (“hoar frost”))
* Old Saxon hrīm
* Old Swedish *riim, *rim (only in rimfrost (“rime frost”); modern Swedish rim)
* West Frisian rime, rym

Synonyms

frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rhyme, enumerate, hoar frost

Scrabble Score: 6

rime: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
rime: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rime: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

rime: valid Words With Friends Word