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Traditional English :: rim
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rimless.html - n. & v. --n. 1 a a raised edge or border. b a margin or verge, esp. of something circular.
2 the part of a pair of spectacles surrounding the lenses.
3 the outer edge of a wheel, on which the tyre is fitted.
4 a boundary line (the rim of the horizon). --v.tr. (rimmed, rimming)
1 a provide with a rim. b be a rim for or to.
2 edge, border. rim-brake a brake acting on the rim of a wheel. rimless adj. rimmed adj. (also in comb.). [OE rima edge: cf. ON rimi ridge (the only known cognate)] |
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Traditional English :: rime(1)
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rimless.html - n. & v. --n. 1 frost, esp. formed from cloud or fog.
2 poet. hoar-frost. --v.tr. cover with rime. [OE hrim] |
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Traditional English :: rime(2)
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rimless.html - archaic var. of RHYME. |
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Traditional English :: rimose
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rimless.html - adj.
(also rimous) esp. Bot. full of chinks or fissures. [L rimosus f. rima chink] |
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Traditional English :: rimu
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rimless.html - n.
NZ a softwood tree, Dacrydium cupressinum, native to New Zealand. [Maori] |
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Traditional English :: rimy
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rimless.html - adj.
(rimier, rimiest) frosty; covered with frost. |
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