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 rime /ˈraɪm/
 霜;白霜

 Rhyme n.  [The Old English spelling rime is becoming again common. See Note under Prime.]
 1. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. “Railing rhymes.”
    A ryme I learned long ago.    --Chaucer.
 He knew
 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime.   --Milton.
 2. Pros. Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any.
 For rhyme with reason may dispense,
 And sound has right to govern sense.   --Prior.
 3. Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes.
 4. A word answering in sound to another word.
 Female rhyme. See under Female.
 Male rhyme. See under Male.
 Rhyme or reason, sound or sense.
 Rhyme royal Pros., a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.

 Rime n.  A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

 Rime, n.  White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
    The trees were now covered with rime.   --De Quincey.

 Rime, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rimed p. pr. & vb. n. Riming.] To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

 Rime, n.  A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

 Rime, n. Rhyme. See Rhyme.
 Note: ☞ This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.

 Rime, v. i. & t. To rhyme. See Rhyme.
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 rime
      n 1: ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects
           outside) [syn: frost, hoar, hoarfrost]
      2: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
         (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme]
      v 1: be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last
           syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" [syn: rhyme]
      2: compose rhymes [syn: rhyme]