ˈrime-frost rare.
[f. rime n.2 + frost n. Cf. Icel. hr{iacu}mfrost, Fær. r{iacu}m-, Sw. and Da. rimfrost.]
Hoar-frost, rime. Also with a and pl.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3328 It lai ðor, quit als a rim frost. c 1290 St. Michael 627 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 317 In þis manere ȝe mowen i-seo þe kuynde of reyne and snowe, Of hawel, of snouȝ, of Rym-forst. 13.. Cursor M. 6520 (Gött.), Manna..fell fra heuen..Als a rime frost to se. a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 52 He sloghe..þaire mours in ryme froist. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 736 Hec pruina, a rymfrost. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 434/1 Ryme frost, pruina. 1626 Bacon Sylva §81 In Frosty Mornings (such as we call Rime frosts) you shall finde drops of Dew upon the Inside of Glasse-windowes. 1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1957 Blunden Poems of Many Years 298 Their poor limbs shook With the wind's or the rimefrost's blue stroke. |
So ˈrime-frosted a.
| 1889 Harper's Mag. Mar. 643/2 The birch-trees delicately rime-frosted to their finest tips. |