From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Naturerimerime /raɪm/ noun [uncountable] literaryDNfrost (=powdery ice)Examples from the Corpusrime• He had lost the feeling in his fingers and a rime of frost clung to his moustache and beard.• Ropes became fringed with a rime of dew.• Now the back was a problem for the longest rime.• Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime.• Initialcontract Liz and her therapistarranged to meet initially three rimes and then decide whether furthercontact was necessary.• There was rime on his beard, making him appear grizzled and old.• In the morning white rimecoated the sill of the barred window-space.OriginrimeOld Englishhrim