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ˈrime-frost rare.
[f. rime n.2 + frost n. Cf. Icel. hrímfrost, Fær. rím-, Sw. and Da. rimfrost.]
Hoar-frost, rime. Also with a and pl.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3328 It lai ðor, quit als a rim frost. c1290St. Michael 627 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 317 In þis manere ȝe mowen i-seo þe kuynde of reyne and snowe, Of hawel, of snouȝ, of Rym-forst. 13..Cursor M. 6520 (Gött.), Manna..fell fra heuen..Als a rime frost to se. a1340Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 52 He sloghe..þaire mours in ryme froist. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 736 Hec pruina, a rymfrost. c1440Promp. Parv. 434/1 Ryme frost, pruina. 1626Bacon Sylva §81 In Frosty Mornings (such as we call Rime frosts) you shall finde drops of Dew upon the Inside of Glasse-windowes. 1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1957Blunden Poems of Many Years 298 Their poor limbs shook With the wind's or the rimefrost's blue stroke.
So ˈrime-frosted a.
1889Harper's Mag. Mar. 643/2 The birch-trees delicately rime-frosted to their finest tips. |