单词 | rime |
释义 | rime 1 ![]() n. 1. A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface. 2. A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: "A meal couldn't leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs" (James Fallows). tr.v. rimed, rim·ing, rimes To cover with or as if with frost or ice: "heavy [shoes] rimed with mud and cement ... from the building site" (Seamus Deane). [Middle English rim, from Old English hrīm.] rimy adj. ![]() sign covered in rime atop Mt. Washington, New Hampshire |
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