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RILL, s. [ryll. Icel. rivulus, in the Edda, q. d, rinnel, 
from the Su. Goth, rinna, to flow. Serenius. Rather, an 
abbreviation of the Lat. rivulus, viz. ril/us. The old French 
language has ril/er, glisser, couler. Roq.] A small brook ; 
a little streamlet. 
May thy brimmed waves from this 
Their full tribute never miss, 
From a thousand petty rills, 
That tumble down the snowy hills. Milton. 
To RILL, v.n. To run in small streams, 
lo ! Apollo, mighty king, let envy, 
Ill-judging and .verbose, from Lethe’s lake, 
Draw tuns unmeasurable; while thy favour 
Administers to my ambitious thirst 
The wholesome draught from Aganippe’s spring 
Genuine, and with soft murmurs gently rilling 
Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt. Prior. 
RILLE, a river of France, in Normandy, which falls into 
the Seine, between Quillebceuf and Honfleur. 
RI'LLET, s. [corrupted from rivulet.'] A small stream. 
—A creeke of Ose, between two hills, delivering a little fresh 
rillet into the sea. Carew. 
RILLINGTON, a village of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5 miles north-east.of New Malton. 
RIM, s. [pirn, Sax.] A border; a margin.—It keeps of 
the samethickness near its centre ; while its figure is capable 
of variation towards the rim. Grew. —That which encircles 
something else.—We may not affirm, that ruptures are not 
confinable unto one side, as the peritoneum or rim of the 
belly may be broke; or its perforations relaxed in either. 
Brown. —The drum-maker uses it for rimbs. Mortimer. 
RIMS, in Ship Building, compass-pieces of timber, which 
form the quarter-galleries between the stools. 
Rims, a skirting of elm-board round the upper side of 
ships’ tops. 
Rim, a cast-iron frame, in which the dropping-palls of 
the capstan traverses, and palls, or counteracts the efforts of 
the capstan. 
RIMA, [Lat.] a fissure, or opening: a term used only 
in anatomy; as, rim a glottidis, the opening of the glottis, 
&c. 
RIMAC, a river of Peru, in the province of Guarochiri, 
which rises among the ridges of the Andes, runs west, and 
waters a delightful plain, in which is situated on its shore the 
city of Lima. It flows into the Pacific ocean, in Lat. 12. 
2. S. 
RIMACHUMA, a large lake of Quito, in the province of 
Mainas, and in the woods to the west of the river Pastaza. 
It is 19 miles long from north to south, and 6 wide from east 
to west, and has a channel 10 miles long, by which it 
empties itself on the west side, into the river Pastaza, in Lat. 
4. 11. S. It receives on the south the river Apischi, and by 
the north-west the river Chillay. 
RIMA-SZECS, a market town of Hungary; 17 miles south 
of Gomer. Lat. 48. 18. N. long. 20. 14. E. 
RIMA-SZOMBATH, or Gross-Steffelsdorf, a small 
town of the north-west of Hungary, 14 miles east-south-east 
of Altsohl, on the Rima, over which there is a very neat 
bridge. The inhabitants, above 3000 in number, are of 
mixed extraction, partly Magyars, partly Germans, and 
Slowacs. They tan leather, and make a number of petty 
articles, such as tobacco-pipe heads, turners’ wares, &c. Lat. 
48.23. 16. N. long. 20.2. 17 E. 
RIME, s. [hpim, pim, Sax jum-pppe, rime-frost.] Hoar 
frost.—Breathing upon a glass giveth a dew; and in rime 
frosts you shall find drops of dew upon the inside of glass 
windows. Bacon. —In a hoar frost, a rime is a multitude of 
quadrangular prisms piled without any order one over ano¬ 
ther. Grew. — [Rima, Lat.] A hole; a chink. Not used. 
■—Though birds have no epiglottis, yet can they contract the 
rime or chink of their larynx, so as to prevent the admission 
of wet or dry indigested. Brown, —A step of a ladder. 
North. Grose. 
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To RIME, v. n. To freeze with hoar frost. 
RIME. See Rhyme. 
RIMERS are moveable bars to support the sluices and 
over-ialls in opening-weirs. 
RIMINGTON, a township of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 14| miles west-south-west of Skipton. Popula¬ 
tion 596. 
RIMINI, a considerable town of Italy, in the Ecclesiastical 
states, situated on the river Marecchia, near its influx into 
the Adriatic. It had formerly a good harbour ; but the sea 
has now retired to the distance of a mile and a half; and 
Rimini is at present surrounded by a plain, opening on the 
one side to the Adriatic, and bounded on the other by a 
range of hills, which rise gradually until they terminate in 
the great chain of the Appennines. The town is extensive, 
but dull and deserted, its population being reduced to 8000. 
Its streets are straight, and contain several churches and 
family mansions of Istrian marble. It has several squares, 
in the principal of which there is a marble fountain, with a 
statue of pope Paul V. In the middle of the market-place is 
a pedestal, from which it is said in tradition, that Csesar 
harangued his army, after the passage of the Rubicon. 
The cathedral, and several of the churches of Rimini, are 
ornamented with beautiful marble, procured from the ruins 
of the old harbour, which was constructed of that material. 
The church of St. Francis, a fine edifice of the 15th century, 
has a profusion of sculptures, statues, and bas reliefs, and is 
remarkable as being one of the first buildings in which the 
Gothic architecture gave place to the modern Roman. Of 
the old Roman, Rimini contains several valuable remains. 
At the entrance, on the side of Pesaro, stands a triumphal 
arch of Augustus, adorned with Corinthian columns, and 
said to be the best preserved of any extant. From this arch, 
a broad street extends to an elegant bridge over the Marecchia, 
begun by Augustus, and completed by Tiberius. It is 220 
feet in length, consists of five arches, and is built of a white 
stone, or marble, found in the neighbouring Appennines. 
Its execution joins the most perfect solidity to symmetry and 
elegance. 
Rimini, called formerly Ariminum, from the river Armi- 
nus, which washed its walls, is very ancient, and formed at 
one time a small independent republic. At present it com¬ 
municates with the Adriatic by a canal; but the entrance is 
so choaked up with mud and sand, as hardly to admit even 
small barks. This accumulation, occasioned by the mud 
deposited by the river, has increased visibly during the pre¬ 
sent century. The chief trade of the place consists in sup¬ 
plying the interior with fish. It is the see of a bishop; 28 
miles south-south-east of Ravenna, 50 north-west of Ancona, 
and 150 north of Rome. Lat. 44. 3. 43. N. long. 12. 32. 
51. E. 
RIMNIK. See Ribnik. 
RIMONT, a town of France, department of the Arriege. 
Population 1800; 7 miles north-east of St. Girons, and 18 
west of Foix. 
RIMOUSKI, a seigniory of Lower Canada, which lies 
along the St. Lawrence, and is 6 miles in length, and as many 
in breadth. 
RIMPAR, a town of Bavarian Franconia; 4 miles north 
of Wurzburg. Population 1000. 
RI'MPLE, s, [hpympelle, Sax.] A wrinkle; a fold. 
Prompt. Parv. 
To RUMPLE, v. a. [“ rympyled, rugatus.” Prompt. 
Pffru.] To pucker; to wrinkle.—A rimp/ed vecke farre 
ronne in age. Chaucer. —The skin was tense, also rimpled 
and blistered. Wiseman. 
RUMPLING, s. Uneven motion; undulation. 
Throughout the lanes she glides at evening’s close, 
And softly lulls her infant to repose; 
Then sits and gazes, but with viewless look. 
As gilds the moon the rimpling of the brook. Crabbe. 
RIMPTON, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 5 miles 
north-east of Yeovil. 
RIMSWELL, 
