rime

Ice from fog

Rime is frost formed when water vapor freezes directly onto cold surfaces, creating a white crystalline coating: Rime coated the branches overnight.

Rime also means an archaic or poetic spelling of rhyme, preserved in phrases like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

As a verb, to rime is to cover with frost.

winter

frost

Thin ice coating

iceWater's solid form
snowFrozen crystalline precipitation
frozenSolidified by extreme cold

wintry · blizzard · solstice · tundra · hoarfrost · cold snap · January · December · frosty morning · icicle

frost

hoarfrost

Frozen fog deposit

ice crystalsSolid water formations
frostworkOrnate ice crystal formations
freezingExtremely cold

white frost · glaze · frozen dew · crystalline · silvery · delicate · morning frost · frozen mist · sparkling

poetry

verse

Metered poetic passage

meterDevice that measures usage
stanzaPoem's line grouping
coupletTwo successive verse lines

quatrain · alliteration · assonance · sonnet · ballad · ode · limerick · haiku · elegy · poetic form

cold

freezing

Extremely cold

frigidExtremely and intensely cold
icyFrozen or unfriendly
bitter coldExtremely low temperature

frosty · wintry · chilly · glacial · subzero · polar · raw · biting · numbing · arctic

rime

frost

hoarfrost

verse

freezing

rime

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