The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).

(Ireland, now rare, done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs.

present participle of rime

(rare) That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.

(obsolete or dialectal) Number. / (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme. / (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

A step of a ladder; a rung.

Obsolete form of rhyme.

(meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. / (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed. / A film or slimy coating.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.