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riming

Definitions

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  • adjective rare That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.
  • noun Ireland The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs.
  • verb Present participle of rime.
  • noun The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).

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  • adjective having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds

Etymologies

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First attested in 1822; formed as rime (“cover with rime or hoar frost”) +‎ -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives).

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First attested in 1873; formed as rime (“dye (wool or yarn) by steeping in water with alder twigs”) +‎ -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

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Regular conjugation (rim(e) + -ing).

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First attested in 1948; formed as rime (“cover with rime or hoar frost”) +‎ -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).

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Examples

  • Mr. Nicholson's poems are a kind of riming journal of his heart.

    The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • These plate-shaped crystals showed evidence of what's known as riming - the accumulation of liquid water - whereas ice particles elsewhere in the cloud showed little or no riming. "

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • These plate-shaped crystals showed evidence of what's known as riming - the accumulation of liquid water - whereas ice particles elsewhere in the cloud showed little or no riming. "

    Livescience.com 2010

  • The temperatures through a fairly deep layer of the atmosphere were above -4 C, resulting in a lot of supercooled liquid water within the cloud which produced riming.

    What made Wednesday's storm special? Wes Junker 2011

  • The guru/speaker of Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Noble New" from Songs of the Soul offers eight loving commands to devotees in an octet that consists of two quatrains; the first quatrain features two riming couplets, and second quatrain has the traditional rime scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet, ABAB.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Ai spesshullee laiks teh riming ov “splort” and “cohort.”

    Furwall… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Those pesky questions involving water, natural landscapes and social structures are somehow more important to the bilingual, binational towns riming the southern edge of the United States than who garners votes to Washington.

    2006 October 04 « Eclectics Anonymous 2006

  • Those pesky questions involving water, natural landscapes and social structures are somehow more important to the bilingual, binational towns riming the southern edge of the United States than who garners votes to Washington.

    Buttoning Bashing « Eclectics Anonymous 2006

  • Then it spasmed into rigidity, and then froze, literally, frost riming all over its body.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • I could speak of Chicago lyrically, riming "bored lookin 'skaters" with "some folks'll see friendship as favors", something like that.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

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