rime 
Fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves rimer 2 (ri'mi'r) 
into ladies' favours. Shale., Hen. V., v. 2. 164. \lso rititi/u r 
5183 
/. [< rimer 2 , n.] 
rin 
TO rime to death, to destroy by the use of riming incan 
tations; hence, to kill off in any manner; get rid of ; make 
an end of. 
And my poets 
Shall with a satire, steep'd in gall and vinegar, 
Wujitie 'em to death, as they do rats in Ireland. 
Randolph, Jealous Lovers, v. 2. 
Were the brute capable of being rhymed to death, Mr. 
Creech should doit genteely, and take the widow with her rimer :! (ri'mer), n. In fort., a palisade, 
jointure. Jt. Parson, iji^etter^ol Eminent Men, from r i m e-royalt (rim'roFal), . A seven-line stanza 
which Chaucer introduced into English versifi- 
cation. 
1. 
[Bodl. Coll. (Lond., 1813), I. 54. 
To compose verses; make 
To ream, in entomology, of the sculpture of insects when 
[Eng.] the surface shows many minute narrow and 
When . . . the rivet cannot be inserted without re- generally parallel excavations. Also rimovs. 
course to some means for straightening the holes, it is rimosely (ri'mos-li), adv. In a rimose manner, 
best to rimer them out ami I use a larger rivet rimosity (ri-mos'i-ti), n, [< rimose + -%.] The 
R. IT*, Steam Boilers, p. 67. gMe j ei riio * or e L hink 
Ihe lower end of each column is bolted by turned bolts rimniia Cri'mnn^ n IY1, r/i/i/e full nf nhintu- 
in rimered holes to cast iron girders 20 in. deep. nmous (n mils;, a. |_<- Li.rtmosus, lull ot cnmks. 
The Engineer, LXVI. 520. ?ee rimose.] Same as rimose. 
rim-planer (rim'pla"n6r), n. A machine for 
dressing wheel-fellies, planing simultaneously 
one flat and one curved surface. 
II. in trail*. 
verses. 
There march'd the bard and blockhead side by side, 
Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 102. 
2. To accord in the terminal sounds; more 
widely, to correspond in sound ; assonate ; har- 
monize ; accord ; chime. 
But fagotted his notions as they fell, 
And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit., ii. 4-JO. 
Riming delirium, a form of mania in which the patient 
speaks in verses. 
rime 2 (rim), . [< ME. rime, rim, ryme, < AS. 
hrim = OD. D. rijni OHG. "/trim, *rim, rime, 
MHG. "rim (in verb rimeln), G. dial, reim, rein 
= Icel. hrim = Sw. Dan. rim, frost ; cf. D. rijp = 
There are in it three 
lines riming together, the second, 
riming, and the sixth and seventh. It is generally sup 
posed that this form of verse received the name of rime- 
royal from the fact that it was used by King James I. of 
Scotland in his poem of the "Kinges Quair." It was a 
favorite form of verse till the end of the sixteenth cen- 
tury. The following stanza is an example : 
And first, within the porch and jaws of hell, 
Sat deep Remorse of Conscience, all besprent 
With tears ; and to herself oft would she tell 
Her wretchedness, and, cursing, never stent 
To sob and sigh, but ever thus lament 
With thoughtful care, as she that, all in vain, 
Would wear and waste continually in pain. 
SackmUe, Induction to Mir. for Mags. 
rimery (ri'mer-i), n. [< rime 1 + -ery.~\ The 
art of making rimes. Eclee.Rev. [Rare.] (Imp. 
Diet.) 
OHG. hrifo, rifo, MHG. rife, G. reif, frost. Some rimester (rim'ster), . [Also and more corn- 
erroneously connect the word with Gr. icpv/i6f, 
Kpitof, frost, KpiiaraMof, ice, < -\/ kru, be hard : Bee 
crystal, crude.] White frost, or hoar-frost; con- 
gealed dew or vapor : same as frost, 3. 
Frosty rime, 
That in the morning whitened hill and plain 
And is no more. Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, iii. J4. 
My grated casement whitened with Autumn's early rime. 
Whittier, Cassandra Southwick. 
rime 2 (rim), v. i. ; pret. and pp. rimed, ppr. rim- 
ing. [< rime 2 , .] To freeze or congeal into 
hoar-frost. 
rime 3 (rim), r. /. Same as ream 2 . 
rime 4 , n. A Middle English or modern dialectal 
form of rim 1 . 
rime B t, A Middle English form of rim 2 . 
rime 6 (rim), n. [< OF. rime, < L. rima, a crack, 
fissure, cleft, chink.] A chink ; a fissure ; a rent rim fire (rim'fir) a 
or long aperture. Sir T. Browne. 
rime-frost (rim'frost), n. [< ME. rymefrost, rim- 
frost (= Sw. Dan. rimfrost), < rime 2 + frost.] 
Hoar-frost; rime. 
monly rhymester (see rime 1 ); < rime 1 + -ster.] 
A rimer; a- maker of rimes, generally of an in- 
ferior order; a would-be poet ; a poetaster. 
Railing was the ypocras of the drunken rhymester, and 
Quipping the marchpane of the mad libeller. 
0. Harvey, Four Letters. 
But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse, 
Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse? 
What heterogeneous honours deck the peer ! 
Lord, rhymester, petit-mattre, and pamphleteer ! 
Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 
rimeyt, v. t. [ME. rimeyen, < OF. rimeier, rimaier, 
rimoier, rimoyer, < rime, rime : see rime 1 .] 
compose in rime ; versify. 
This olde gentil Britons in hir dayes 
Of diverse aventures maden layes, 
pelle, a rimple). wrinkle, freq. of "hrimpan, rim- 
pan (pp. gerumpen) = MD. D. rimpelen = MLG. 
rimpen, wrinkle, = OHG. hrimfan, rimphan, 
rimpfan, rimpfen, MHG. rimpfen, riimphen, G. 
riimpfen, crook, bend, wrinkle ; perhaps (assum- 
ing the Teut. root to be hramp) a nasalized 
form of / hrap = Gr. ndp^eiv, wrinkle; other- 
wise (assuming the initial h to be merely cas- 
ual), akin to Gr. pa^^of, a curved beak, pafufrf/, a 
curved sword.] I. trans. To wrinkle; rumple. 
See rumple. 
A rympled vekke, ferre ronne in age. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4495. 
He was grete and longe, and blakke and rowe rympled. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 168. 
No more by the banks of the streamlet we'll wander, 
And smile at the moon's rimpled face on the wave. 
Burns, O'er the Mist-shrouded Cliffs. 
Rymeyed in hir flrste Briton tonge. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Franklin's Tale, 1. 
II. intrans. To wrinkle ; ripple. 
As gilds the moon the rimpling of the brook. 
Crabbe, Parish Register (ed. 1807X i. 
rimple (rim'pl), . [Also (now more common- 
ly) rumple; < ME. rimple, rympyl, rimpel, < AS. 
*hrimpele, hrympelle = MD. D. rimpel = MLG. 
rimpel (also rimpe), a wrinkle ; from the verb.] 
A wrinkle ; rumple. See rumple. 
To rim-rock (rim'rok), n. In mining, parts still 
remaining of the edges of the channels which 
the old or Tertiary rivers wore away in the 
bed-rock, and within which the auriferous 
detritus was 
accumulated. 
[California.] 
1. Noting a cartridge 
which has a detonating substance placed in rim-saw 
some part of the rim of its base : distinguished (rim'sa),ii. A 
from center-fire. Such cartridges have the defect (from 
which center-fire cartridges are free) that, unless the de- 
tonating substance is distributed all around the base, par- 
ticular care must be used in their insertion to obtain the 
proper position for it relatively to the hammer of the lock. 
2. Pertaining to or adapted for the use of a 
rim-fire cartridge : as, a rim-fire gun (a gun in 
which rim-fire cartridges are used). 
The birch-trees delicately rime-frosted to their finest rimir Tri'mikl n t<rimf 1 -4- if ~\ Pprtninirxr 
tips. Harper's Mag., LXXVIIL 643. r , ; ' ', \-\ nmei + -C.J Pertaining 
, to rime. Also rhvmic. [Rare.] 
rimeless (nm'les), a. [< rime 1 + -?-"- n CT = 
no rime ; not in the form of rime. 
less. 
Too popular is Tragic Poesy, .-* / -/ * v r , T 
Straining his tip-toes for a farthing fee, rimiform (n mi-form), a. [< L. rima, a chink, + 
And doth beside on rhymeless numbers tread, forma, torm.] In hot., having a longitudinal rimu (run o) 
Unhid Iambics flow from careless head. chink or furrow. Leighton, Brit. Lichens, glos- n. [Maori.] 
Bp. Uatt, Satires, I. iv. 3. sarv . Same as imott- 
A recurring letter, rimist (n'mist), n. [< rime 1 + -ist.] A rimer, pine. 
Also rhymist. [Rare.] Rimula (rim'u-la), n. [NL., < L. rimula, dim. 
His [Milton's] character of Dryden, who sometimes visit- of rima, a crack : eeerime 6 .] In conch., a genus 
ed him, was that he was a good rhymist, but no poet. of fossil keyhole-limpets, or Fisstirellidx. De- 
Johnson, Milton, france, 1819. 
On morgen fel hem a dew a-gein. . . . 
It lai thor, quit as a rim front. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. 8.), L 3328. 
rime-frosted (rim'fros''ted), a. Covered with 
hoar-frost or rime. 
'.SB.] Having 
Also rhyme- 
rime-letter (lim'lefer), . 
as in alliteration. 
The repeated letter [in alliteration] is called the rime- 
letter. F. A. March, Anglo-Sax. Gram., p. 224. 
His [Mitford's] remarks are on the verbal, grammatical, 
and rhymic (why not rhymical!) inaccuracies to be met 
with in the Elegy. s. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 517. 
saw the cut- 
ting part of 
which is an- 
milar and is 
mounted up- 
on a central 
circular disk. 
E. H. Knight. 
rim-stock 
(rim'stok),w. 
A clog-alma- 
nac. Cham- 
bers' s Encyc. 
Rim-saw. 
a, central disk upon which the cutting part * is 
mounted, attached to the disk by rivets. 
(ef. AS. rimere, a computer, reckoner, calcula- 
bling or related to the genus Simula. 
imiilrtoA /I.TTVI'V^ l*\ci\ f. r/ ATT #..,'.,, 
the pound-nets used on the Great Lakes. These i 
ropes serve the double purpose of holding the stakes firm- : u/r_.i^ 
ly and affording a means of hauling a boat along the net Timy 1 t (n mi), a. 
when the crib is lifted. 
marius, a rimer; F. rimeur Pg. rimador = It. 
rimatore, a rimer.] One who makes rimes or 
verses ; especially, a maker of verses wherein 
rime or metrical form predominates over poetic nm-lOCk (rim lok), n, A lock having a metal- 
thought or creation; hence, an inferior poet; Iic case > intended to be affixed to the outside 
in former use, also, a minstrel. * a door, etc., instead of being inserted within 
it. See mortise-lock. 
I<.rim 1 ,v., + -er 1 .] 1. An 
implement used in impressing ornamental fig- 
ures upon the margins of the paste or crust of 
pies, etc. It may have the nature either of a 
hand-stamp or of an embossed roller. 2. An 
instrument used in rimming mackerel ; a plow ; 
I-TT 
[Usually rhymy ; < rime 1 
To eschew many Diseases and mischiefs, which have . , , . , . , 
happened before this time in the Land of Wales, by many rimmer 1 (rim er), n. 
Wasters, Rhymers, Minstrels, and other Vagabonds: It is 
ordained, etc. 
Laws of Hen. IV. (1402), in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and 
[Vagrancy, p. 64. 
Sawcie Lictors 
\\ ill catch at vs like Strumpets, and scald Rimers 
Ballad vs out a Tune. 
-fl 1 .] Riming. 
Playing rhimy plays with scurvy heroes. 
Tom Brown, Works, III. 39. (Dames.) 
(ri'mi), a. [< ME. "rimy, < AS. hrimig, 
rimy, frosty, < hrim, rime, frost : see rime 2 .] 1 . 
Covered with rime or hoar-frost. 
But now the clear bright Moon her zenith gains, 
And rimy without speck extend the plains. 
Wordsworth, Evening Walk. 
2. Frosty; cold. 
a rimming-knife. 
Shak., A. and C. (folio 1623), v. 2. 215. rimmer 2 (rim'er), w. and r. Same as reamer, 
I am nae poet in a sense, rimer 2 . rin 1 (rin), V. and H. 
But just a rhymer^ like by chance. rimOSB (ri'mos), , [= Sp. Pg. It. rimoso, < L. riant of run 1 . 
Burns, First Epistle to J. Lapraik. ,,.., ~ *..n ~ -uiTL s ::.. - - f i /* 
(ri'mer), . Same as reamer. Also rim- 
[ En &-] chinky, like the bark of a tree : specifically said,' 
In little more than a month after that meeting on the 
hill on a rimy morning in departing November Adam 
and Dinah were married. George Eliot, Adam Bede, Iv. 
An obsolete or Scotch va- 
of chinks, < rima, a chink, fissure: rin 1 * (rin), . [Jap., = Chinese /(, the thou- 
Full of chinks, clefts, or crevices; sandth part of a Hang or ounce.] A Japanese 
bronze or brass coin, exactly similar in form to 
