rimy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of rimy
before 1000; Old English hrīmig (not recorded in ME). See rime 1, -y 1
Example Sentences
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Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over the crisp and rimy grass approaches a small, fair woman, all a-trembling, who has no sooner reached the spot, than she swoons and loses her breath.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
Frost-giants and mountain-giants came crowding round the rimy shores of Jotunheim to look across the sea upon the funeral of an Asa.
From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter
And the yellow light of the early year gilded the remotest hills of Ardno and Ben Ime, and the Old Man Mountain lifted his ancient rimy chin, still merrily defiant, to the sky.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
IN little more than a month after that meeting on the hill—on a rimy morning in departing November—Adam and Dinah were married.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
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