Rime

Rime is a coating of ice:

  • Hard rime, white ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze to the outer surfaces of objects, such as trees
  • Soft rime, similar to hard rime, but feathery and milky in appearance

Rime is also an alternate spelling of "rhyme" as a noun:

  • Syllable rime, term used in the study of phonology in linguistics
  • Rime dictionary, type of ancient Chinese dictionary used for writing poetry
  • Rime table, a syllable chart of the Chinese language
  • Rime riche, a form of rhyme using identical sounds

In literature:

  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Le Rime, a collection of lyrical poems by Dante Alighieri
  • The Rime of King William, a poetic eulogy of William the Conqueror written in Old English

Other uses:

  • NoĆ©mi Rime, French opera singer
  • Rime movement, an eclectic movement within Tibetan Buddhism
  • Rime Age, an age in the computer game realMyst
  • RelayNet International Mail Exchange (RIME), an e-mail exchange networking protocol

Famous quotes containing the word rime:

    Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)