Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate. --
Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge. -- Rim lock. See under
Lock.
Rim, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rimmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rimming.] To
furnish with a rim; to border.
||Ri"ma (?), n.; pl. Rimæ (#). [L.] (Anat.) A narrow and elongated
||aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
||Ri"mau da"han (?). [From the native Oriental name.] (Zoöl.) The
||clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East
||Indies.
Rim"base` (?), n. (Mil.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with
the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.
Rime (?), n. [L. rima.] A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a
crack. Sir T. Browne.
Rime, n. [AS. hrm; akin to D. rijm, Icel. hrm, Dan. rim, Sw. rim; cf.
D. rijp, G. reif, OHG. rfo, hrfo.] 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. [Etymol. uncertain.] A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
Rime, n. Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor.
This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use
again.
Rime, v. i. & t. To rhyme. See Rhyme.
Rim"er (?), n. A rhymer; a versifier.
Rim"er, n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
Rim"ey (?), v. t. [Cf. OF. rimoier. See Ryime.] To compose in rhyme; to
versify. [Obs.]
[Lays] rimeyed in their first Breton tongue.
Chaucer.
Rim"mer (?), n. An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the
rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight.
Ri*mose" (?), a. [L. rimosus, fr. rima a chink: cf. F. rimeux.] 1. Full
of rimes, fissures, or chinks.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like
those in the bark of trees.
Ri*mose"ly, adv. In a rimose manner.
Ri*mos"i*ty (?), n. State of being rimose.
Rim"ous (?), a. Rimose.
Rim"ple (?), n. [AS. hrimpele, or rimpel. See Rumple.] A fold or
wrinkle. See Rumple.
Rim"ple, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rimpled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Rimpling
(?).] To rumple; to wrinkle.
Rim"y (?), a. Abounding with rime; frosty.
Rind (rnd), n. [AS. rind bark, crust of bread; akin to OHG. rinta, G.
rinde, and probably to E. rand, rim; cf. Skr. ram to end, rest.] The
external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide;
bark; peel; shell.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms,
although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled.
Milton.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
Shak.