Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To compose in rime; versify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To compose in rhyme; to versify.
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Examples
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One expects that kind of rimey feeling in the sire season? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A young man, perhaps three or four years older than Wolf, lay on his side in the rimey crust of the playa.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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Our toboggans being so rimey to-day, and very often scraped the rime off so as it wouldn't draw so hard.
Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador Mina Benson Hubbard 1913
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Her smiles twin rows of pearls display * Chamomile-buds or rimey spray
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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