Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rime

plural of rime

A surname.

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

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

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

present participle of rime

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

A step of a ladder; a rung.

(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.