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

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  1. n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
  2. n. White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.
  3. v. i. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  4. n. A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
  5. n. Rhyme. See Rhyme.
  6. v. i. & t. To rhyme. See Rhyme.
  7. n. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
  8. n. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
  9. v. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
  10. v. compose rhymes
  11. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne. White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. A step or round of a ladder; a rung. Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again. To rhyme. See Rhyme.
  12. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T.Browne.