rime

1. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
2. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. A film or slimy coating.

verb

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

1. To compose or treat in verse; versify.
2. (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

   "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".

3. Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

   "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

4. To number; count; reckon.

1. Number.
2. Rhyme.

   Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.

3. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.

noun

A step of a ladder; a rung.

noun

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.