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To put into rime: as, to rime a story.-4. To bring into a certain condition by riming: influence by rime. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-2308.jpg:[blocks in formation] Shall with a satire, steep'd in gall and vinegar, Rhyme 'em to death , as they do rats in Ireland. Randolph , Jealous Lovers, v. 2. Were the brute capable of being rhymed to death , Mr. Creech should do it genteely, and take the widow with her jointure. R. Parsons, in Letters of Eminent Men, from [Bodl. Coll. (Lond., 1813), I. 54. II. in trans. 1. To compose verses; make verses. There march'd the bard and blockhead side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. Pope , Dunciad, iv. 102. 2. To accord in the terminal sounds; more widely, to correspond in sound; a onate; har- monize; accord; chime. But fagotted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., ii. 420. Riming delirium, a form of mania in which the patient speaks in verses. rime2 (rim), n. [ rim , ryme , hrim = OD. D. rijm = OHG. * hrim , * rim , rime , MHG. * rim (in verb rimeln ), G. dial. reim, rein = Icel. hrim = Sw. Dan. rim , frost; cf. D. rijp = OHG. hrifo , rifo , MHG. rife , G. reif , frost. Some erroneously connect the word with Gr. κρυμός , κρύος , frost, κρύσταλλος , ice, kru , be hard: see crystal, crude.] White frost, or hoar-frost; congealed dew or vapor: same as frost , 3. Frosty rime , That in the morning whitened hill and plain And is no more. Words worth, Eccles. Sonnets, iii. 34. My grated casement whitened with Autumn's early rime . Whittier , Cas sandra South wick. rime2 (rim), v . i.; pret. and pp. rimed , ppr. rim- ing. [ hoar-frost. rime3 (rim), v. t . Same as ream2 . IMG:content-2309.png:[blocks in formation] The lower end of each column is bolted by turned bolts in rimered holes to cast iron girders 20 in. deep. The Engineer, LXVI. 520. rimer3 (rī'mer), n. In fort ., a palisade. rime-royalt (rim'roi"al), n. A seven-line stanza which Chaucer introduced into English versifi cation. There are in it three rimes, the first and third lines riming together, the second, fourth, and fifth also riming, and the sixth and seventh. It is generally sup- posed that this form of verse received the name of rime- royal from the fact that it was used by King James I. of Scotland in his poem of the "Kinges Quair." It was a favorite form of verse till the end of the sixteenth cen- tury. The following stanza is an example: And first, within the porch and jaws of hell, Sat deep Remorse of Conscience, all besprent With tears; and to herself oft would she tell Her wretchedne , and, cursing, never stent To sob and sigh, but ever thus lament With thoughtful care, as she that, all in vain, Would wear and waste continually in pain. Sackville , Induction to Mir. for Mags. rimery (rimer-i), n. [ Rev. [Rare.] ( Imp . Dict .) rimester (rim's ter), n. [Also and more com- monly rhymester (see rimel ); rime1 + -ster .] A rimer; a maker of rimes, generally of an in- ferior order; a would-be poet; a poetaster. Railing was the ypocras of the drunken rhymester , and Quipping the marchpane of the mad libeller. G. Harvey, Four Letters. But who forgives the senior's ceasele verse, Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse? What heterogeneous honours deck the peer! Lord, rhymester , petit-maître, and pamphleteer! Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. rimeyt, v . t . [ ME.rimeyen , rimeier , rimaier , rimoier , rimoyer , rime , rime: see rimel.] To rime4, n. A Middle English or modern dialectal compose in rime; versify. form of rim1 . rimet, n. A Middle English form of rim2 . rime rime6 (rim), (rim), n. [ OF.rime , rima , a crack, fi ure, cleft, chink.] ink.] A chink; a fi ure; a rent or long aperture. Sir T. Browne. rime-frost (rim'frost), n. [ rymefrost , rim- frost (= Sw. Dan. rimfrost ), rime2 + frost .] Hoar-frost; rime. On morgen fel hem a dew a-gein.... It lai thor, quit as a rim frost. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3328. Covered with rime-frosted (rim'frosted), a . hoar-frost or rime. The birch-trees delicately rime - frosted to their finest tips. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 643. rimele (rim'les), a . [ -le .] Having no rime; not in the form of rime. Also rhyme le . IMG:content-2310.png:[blocks in formation] The repeated letter (in alliteration) is called the rime letter . F. A. March , Anglo-Sax. Gram., p. 224. rimer1 (ri'mėr), n. [Also and more commonly rhymer, an erroneous spelling (see rimel , n.); early mod. E. rimer, rymer , rimer , rymare, a rimer (used in a depreciative sense) (cf. AS. rimere , a computer, reckoner, calculator), = D. rijmer = MHG. rimære , G. reimer = Icel. rimari = Sw. rimmare = Dan. rimer , a rimer, versifier; as rimel, v., + -er1. Cf. ML. ri marius , a rimer; F. rimeur = Pg. rimador = It. rimatore, a rimer.] One who makes rimes or verses; especially, a maker of verses wherein rime or metrical form predominates over poetic thought or creation; hence, an inferior poet; in former use, also, a minstrel. To eschew many Diseases and mischiefs, which have happened before this time in the Land of Wales, by many Wasters, Rhymers , Minstrels, and other Vagabonds: It is ordained, etc. Laws of Hen . IV . (1402), in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and [Vagrancy, p. 64. Sawcie Lictors Will catch at vs like Strumpets, and scald Rimers Ballad vs out a Tune. IMG:content-2311.jpg:[blocks in formation] which has a detonating substance placed in some part of the rim of its base: distinguished from center -fire. Such cartridges have the defect (from which center-fire cartridges are free) that, unle the de- tonating substance is distributed all around the base, par ticular care must be used in their insertion to obtain the proper position for it relatively to the hammer of the lock. 2. Pertaining to or adapted for the use of a rim-fire cartridge: as, a rim - fire gun (a gun in which rim-fire cartridges are used). rimic (ri'mik), a. [ rime1 + -ic.] Pertaining to rime. Also rhymic. [Rare.] rin in entomology, of the sculpture of insects when the surface shows many minute narrow and generally parallel excavations. Also rimous. rimosely (rī mōs-li), adv . In a rimose manner. rimosity (ri-mos'i-ti), n. [ rimose + -ity.] The state of being rimose or chinky. rimous (rī'mus), a . [L. rimosus , full of chinks: see rimose .] Same as rimose. rim-planer (rim'plā"nėr), n. A machine for dre ing wheel-fellies, planing simultaneously one flat and one curved surface. rimple (rim'pl), v.; pret. and pp. rimpled , ppr. rimpling . [Also (now more commonly) rumple ; hrimpelian (cf. hrym- pelle , a rimple), wrinkle, freq. of * hrimpan , rim- pan (pp. gerumpen ) = MD. D. rimpelen = MLG. rimpen, wrinkle, = OHG. hrimfan , rimphan , rimpfan , rimpfen , MHG. rimpfen , rümphen , G. rümpfen , crook, bend, wrinkle; perhaps (a um- ing the Teut. root to be hramp ) a nasalized form of hrap = Gr. κάρφειν , wrinkle; other- wise (a uming the initial i to be merely cas- ual), akin to Gr. ῥάμφος , a curved beak, ῥαμφή , α curved sword.] I. trans. To wrinkle; rumple. See rumple . A rympled vekke, ferre ronne in age. Rom . of the Rose , 1. 4495. He was grete and longe, and blakke and rowe rympled . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 168. No more by the banks of the streamlet we'll wander, And smile at the moon's rimpled face on the wave. Burns , O'er the Mist-shrouded Cliffs. II. in trans. To wrinkle; ripple. As gilds the moon the rimpling of the brook. Crabbe, Parish Register (ed. 1807), i. rimple (rim'pl), n. [Also (now more common- ly) rumple ; rimple , rympyl , rimpel , hrimpele , hrympelle = MD. D. rimpel = MLG. rimpel (also rimpe ) , a wrinkle; from the verb.] A wrinkle; rumple. See rumple . rim-rock (rim'rok), n. In mining, parts still remaining of the edges of the channels which the old or Tertiary rivers wore away in the bed-rock, and within which the auriferous detritus was accumulated. IMG:content-2312.jpg:[graphic][merged small] His [Mitford's] remarks are on the verbal, grammatical, and rhymic (why not rhymical?) inaccuracies to be met with in the Elegy. N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 517. rimiform (rī'mi-fôrm), a . [L. rima , a chink, + form a , form.] In bot ., having a longitudinal rimu (rim'ö), chink or furrow. Leighton , Brit. Lichens, glos-n. sary. rimist (rī'mist), n. [ -ist .] Arimer. Also rhymist . [Rare.] His [Milton's] character of Dryden, who sometimes visit- ed him, was that he was a good rhymist , but no poet. Johnson, Milton. rimle (rim'les), a . [ rim1 + -le .] Having IMG:content-2313.png:[blocks in formation] bers's Enсус . [Maori.] IMG:content-2314.jpg:[ocr errors] Rim-saw. Same as imou -a, central disk upon which the cutting part b is mounted, attached to the disk by rivets. pine. Rimula (rim'ū-lä), n. [NL., rimula , dim. of rima , a crack: see rime6 .] In conch ., a genus of fo il keyhole-limpets, or Fi urellidæ . De- france , 1819. rimuliform (rim'ū-li-fôrm), a . [L. rimula , a little crack, + form a , form.] Shaped like a crack or fi ure; specifically, in conch ., resem- bling or related to the genus Rimula . rimulose (rim'ū-lōs), a. [NL. * rimulosus , rimula , a little crack: see Rimula .] In bot ., full of small cracks or chinks: said chiefly of lichens and fungi. rimylt (rī'mi), a. [Usually rhy my ; rime1 + -1.] Riming. rim-lock (rim'lok), n . A lock having a metal- Playing rhimy plays with scurvy heroes. lic case, intended to be affixed to the outside of a door, etc., instead of being inserted within IMG:content-2315.png:[blocks in formation] Shak., A. and C. (folio 1623), v. 2. 215. rimmer2 (rim'er), n . and v . Same as reamer , I am nae poet in a sense, But just a rhymer , like, by chance. rimer2 (ri'mėr), n . [Eng.] rimose (rī'mōs), a . [= Sp. Pg. It. rimoso , rimosus , full of chinks, rima , a chink, fi ure: mer . Same as reamer . Also rim see rime6.] Full of chinks, clefts, or crevices; chinky, like the bark of a tree: specifically said, IMG:content-2316.png:[blocks in formation] rin the Chinese cash, and equal in value to the thousandth part of a yen. See lil and yen . rin about (rin'a-bout), n. [Sc. form of run about , run1 + about .] One who runs about through the country; a vagabond. [Scotch.] rind1 (rind), n . [ rind , rinde , rind , rinde , bark of a tree, crust, = MD. rinde , the bark of a tree, D. rinde , oak-bark, tan, = MLG. rinde = OHG. rinta , rind a , MHG. rinte , rinde , G. rinde , rind, crust, crust of bread; prob. bread; prob. akin to AS. rand, E. rand, edge, border, and to AS. rima , E. rim , border: see rand1 and rim1 .] 1. A thick and firm outer coat or covering, as of ani- mals, plants, fruits, cheeses, etc.; a thick skin or integument; specifically, in bot . , same as cor- tex : applied to the outer layer or layers of a fun- gus-body, to the cortical layer (see cortical ) of a lichen, as well as to the bark of trees. His shelde to das shed was with swerds and maces, In which men myghte many an arwe fynde, That thyrled hadde horn and nerf and rynde. 5184 in the north of Scotland, signifying any species of horned cattle given at Martin mas as part of the rent or feu-duty. Bell . rinel (rin), n . [Also erroneously rhine, and in var. form rone , rune ; rune , ryne , a run, course, flow, watercourse, orbit, course of time (= OFries. rene , a flow (in comp. blod- rene ), = G. ronne , a channel, Icel. ryne (in comp.), a flow, stream, = Goth. runs , a flow, flux), ( rinnan , run: see run1, v., and cf. runt, n., in part identical with rine ; cf. also runnel .] A watercourse or ditch. [Prov. Eng.] = This plain [Sedgemoor], intersected by ditches known as rhines , and in some parts rich in peat, is broken by iso- lated hills and lower ridges. Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 257. rine2, v . t . [ rinen (pret. ran ), also rynde , AS.hrinan = OS.hrinan =OHG. hrīnan , touch, etc., = Icel. hrīna , cleave, hurt.] 1. To touch. [Prov. Eng.]-2†. To concern. Jamie son . rine2 (rin), п . A dialectal form of rind1 . Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 642. rine3t, n. Same as rim2. IMG:content-2317.png:[blocks in formation] 2. The skin of a whale; whale-rind: a whalers' term.-31. Edge; border. Thane they roode by that ryver, that rynnyd so swythe, Thare the ryndez overrechez with realle bowghez. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1.921. = Syn. 1. Peel , etc. See skin . rind1 (rind), v . t . [ rind1 , n .; cf. AS. be - rin dan , strip the rind off.] To take the rind from; bark; decorticate. All persons were forbidden... to set fire to the woods of the country, or work detriment to them by " rinding of the trees." W. F. Rae , Newfoundland to Manitoba, i. rind2, n. See rynd . rinded (rin'ded), a . [ rind1 + -ed2.] Having a rind or outer coat: occurring chiefly in compo- sition with a rinded trees. rinforzando (rin-for-tsan'dō), a . [ rinfor- zando , ppr. of rinforzare , strengthen, reinforce: see reinforce.] In music , with special or in- creased emphasis: usually applied to a single phrase or voice-part which is to be made spe- cially prominent. Abbreviated rinf . , rf ., and rfz. rin forzato (rin-fôr-tsäʼtō), a . [It., pp. of rin- forzare , strengthen: see rinforzando .] Same as rinforzando . ring1 (ring), n . [ ring , ryng , also rink , rynk , hring = OS. hring = OFries. hring , ring = D. ring = MLG. rink , LG. ring , rink OHG. hring , ring , MHG. rinc ( ring- ) , G. ring = = = = Icel. hringr Sw. Dan. ring (= Goth. * hriggs , not recorded), a ring, circle; cf. F. rang , a row, rank (see rank2 ), F. harangue = Sp. Pg. arenga = It. aringa , harangue, etc. (see harangue ), krangă , circle, kranglů , round, Ru . krugu , a circle, round; supposed to be round; akin also to L. circus = Gr. κρίκος , κίρκος (see cir- cus ), Skt. chakra (for * kakra ), a wheel, circle. Hence ult. rink2 , rank2 , range , arrange , de- range , harangue .] 1. A circular body with a comparatively large central circular opening. Specifically-( a ) A circular band of any material or size, or designed for any purpose; a circlet; a hoop: as, a key descriptive adjective: as, smooth- ring ; a napkin - ring ; an umbrella- ring ; aring -bolt; aring Summer herself should minister To thee, with fruitage golden- rinded On golden salvers. Tennyson , Eleänore. The soft- rinded smoothening facile chalk, That yields your outline to the air's embrace, Half-softened by a halo's pearly gloom. Browning , Pippa Pa es. especially, a circlet other material worn as an ornament upon the finger, in the ear, or upon some other part of the body. Ho razt hym a riche rynk of red golde werkez, Wyth a starande ston, stondande alofte, That bere blu chande bemez as the bryzt sunne. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1817. With this Ring I thee wed. Book of Common Prayer , Solemnization of Matrimony. Hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble. Esther i. 6. There's a French lord coming o'er the sea To wed me wi' a ring . Fair Janet (Child's Ballads, II. 87). Hence-(b) A circular group; a circular disposition of persons or things. Then make a ring about the corpse of Cæsar, And let me show you him that made the will. Shak ., J. C., iii. 2. 162. ring "Your father breaks horses, don't he?" "If you please, sir, when they can get any to break, they do break horses in the ring , sir." Dickens , Hard Times, ii. (c) The inclosure in which pugilists fight, usually a square area marked off by a rope stakes. And being powerfully aided by Jenkin Vincent with plenty of cold water, and a little vinegar applied according to the scientific method practised by the bottle holders in a modern ring , the man began to raise himself. Scott , Fortunes of Nigel, ii. cattle-show (d) Thin gari rach a horses exhibited or exercised at or market, or on a public promenade. One day, in the ring , Rawdon's stanhope came in sight. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xix. 6. A combination of persons for attaining such objects as the controlling of the market in stocks, or the price of a commodity, or the effecting of personal rsonal and selfish (especially corrupt) ends, as by the control of political or legislative agencies. A [political] Ring is, in its common form, a small num. ber of persons who get po e ion of an administrative machine, and distribute the offices or other good things con nected with it among a band of fellows, greater or le dimensions, who agree to divide with them whatever they make. The Nation , XIII. 333. Those who in great cities form the committees and work the machine are persons whose chief aim in life is to make their living by office. They cement their dominion by combination, each placing his influence at the disposal of the others, and settle all important measures in secret conclave. Such a combination is called a Ring . Bryce, Amer. Commonwealth, II. 75. 7. In the language of produce-exchanges, a device to simplify the settlement of contracts for delivery, where the same quantity of a commodity is called for by several contracts, the buyer in one being the seller in another, the object of the ring being to fill all contracts by delivery made by the first seller to the last buyer. T. H. Dewey , Contracts, etc., p. 66.-8. In arch .: (a) A list, cincture, or annulet round a column. (b) An archivolt, in its specific sense of the arch proper. They [old arches of stone or brick] differ from metal or wooden arches, inasmuch as the compre ed arc of materials called the ring is built of a number of separate pieces having little or no cohesion. Encyc. Brit ., IV. 305. 9. An instrument formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, etc., consisting of a ring, usually of bra , suspended by a swivel, with a hole in one side, through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude upon the inner graduated concave surface. Compare ring - dial .-10. In angling , a guide.-11. In an at . and zool ., an annulus; any circular part or structure like a ring or hoop: as, a tracheal ring (one of the circular hoop-like cartilages of the windpipe); a somitic ring (an annular somite, as one of the segments of a worm); a ring of color.-12. In bot . , same as annulus .-13. A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, containing four shocks, or 240 pieces. - Abdominal ring. See abdominal . - Annual ring, in bot . , one of the concentric layers of wood produced yearly in exoge nous trunks. Such rings result from the more porous structure of the wood formed in spring as compared with the autumn growth, a difference attributed to le and greater tension of the bark at the two seasons. In the exogens of temperate regions, on account of the winter rest, these zones are strongly marked in those of the tropics they are le obvious, but the same difference of structure exists in them with few if any exceptions, save in cases of individual peculiarity. In temperate climates a double ring is exceptionally produced in one season, owing to a ce ation and resumption of growth, caused, for example, by the stripping of the leaves. It is a question whether some, especially tropical, trees do not normally form semiannual rings corresponding to two growing seasons. Somewhat similar rings are formed, several in a sea son, in such roots as the beet. These have no reference to seasons, but result, according to De Bary, from the succe ive formation of cambium-zones in the peripheral layer of parenchyma. Also annual layer or zone . - A ring! a ring! See a hall ! a hall ! under hall . - Arthritic ring. the zone of injected blood-ve els surrounding the cor neal margin, seen in iritis. - Auriculoventricular ring, the margin of the auriculoventricular opening. Benrind-gall (rind′gâl), n . A defect in timber zene ring, a circular group of six carbon and six hydro caused by a bruise in the bark which produces gen atoms which is regarded as representing the const i Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. 165. tution of benzene, and by which its relations to its deriv a callus upon the wood over which the later layers grow without consolidating. Laslett , (b) A limiting boundary; compa . rinderpest (rin'der-pest), n . [ rinderpest (= D . rinder - pest ) , cattle-plague, rinder , pl. of rind , horned cattle (= E. dial. rother , a horned beast: see rother2 ), + pest , plague (= E. pest ) : see pest .] An acute infectious disease of cattle, appearing occasionally among sheep, and communicable to other ruminants. In western Europe the disease has prevailed from time to time since the fourth century in extensive epizoötics. From its home on the steppes of eastern Ru ia and central Asia it has been carried westward by the great migrations and later by the transportation of cattle. The lo es in Europe have been enormous. Thus, in 1711-14 1,500,000 beeves are said to have perished, and in 1870-1 30,000 beeves in France alone. The infection (the precise nature of which has not yet been definitely determined) may be transmitted directly by sick animals or indirectly by manure, or by persons and animals going from the sick to the well. It may be carried a short distance in the air. Its vitality is retained longest in the moist condition. The disease, after a period of incubation of from three to six days, begins with high temperature, rapid pulse, and ce ation of milk-secretion. This latent period is followed by a congestion of all the visible mucous membranes, on which small erosions or ulcers subsequently develop. About 90 per cent. of all attacked die in from four to seven days after the appear ance of the disease. If the animal survives, one attack confers a lasting immunity. IMG:content-2318.png:[blocks in formation] atives may be most conveniently expre ed. Bishop's ring. See bishop . - Broad well ring, a gas-check for use in heavy breech-loading guns, invented by L W. Broad well. See gas - check and fermeture . Bronchial rings, cartilaginous hoops in the walls of the bronchi. serving to distend those air-pa ages. They are often incomplete in a part (about half) of their circumference, in which case they are more precisely called bronchial half- rings . Such is the rule in birds. - Chinese rings, a set of seven rings used by prestigiators. - Ciliary ring, the inner circular part of the ciliary muscle Cir cum esophageal ring. See cir cum esophageal Clearing ring, in angling , a ring or ring-shaped sinker used for clearing a foul hook. Such rings are of bra or iron, comparatively heavy, opening with a hinge to be put on the line, and having a cord attached to r cover them. In case the hook gets fast, the ring is r down to dislodge it; or if a salmon or striped-ba sulis The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia ring the ring is slid down on the line to his nose. - Colored rings, in optics . See Newton's rings. Columns or pillars of the abdominal ring. See column . - Cornice ring. See cornice . - Crural ring. See crural. - Decad ring. See decad . - Diaphragmatic ring, a name given by Chau ier to the irregularly quadrilateral aperture by which the inferior vena cava pa es through the diaphragm to the heart. Also called foramen quadratum . See cut under diaphragm . - Dicket ring. Same as decad ring. Douglas ring, a name given in Scotland and the north of England to a ring decorated with a heart or hearts, or having a heart-shaped seal or stone: in allusion to the "bloody heart," the bearing of the Douglas family. - Episcopal ring. Same as bishop's ring . -Esophageal, fairy, femoral ring. See the adjectives. - Fisherman's ring. See fisherman . - Gemow ring. Same as gemel -ring.Hernial ring, the constricted opening of a hernial sac. -Inguinal rings. Same as abdominal rings . - Investiture ring. See investiture . - Linked ring, a ring com posed of two or more hoops hinged or linked together may be seven in number, and the order of color follows that known as Newton's scale of colors. Sir Isaac Newton was the first to investigate them (whence the name). - Nobili's rings, concentric colored rings formed on a flat surface about a pointed electrode by the electrolysis of certain salts. Nobili used a solution of lead upon a sheet of polished metal, the cathode being a platinum wire. Ocellary, ophthalmic, parheliacal rings. See the adjectives. Open ring, a coupling-link which is left open on one side, the ends pa ing each other but not touching. It is used in agricultural machines. Also called cap - ring and open link . Pixy ring. See pixy. Polarized rings. See interference figures , under inter ference, 5.- Reinforce-rings. See reinforce. - Ring and-staff investiture. See ecclesiastical investiture , under investiture . - Ring course. See course1. - Ring nebula. See nebula . - Ring of an anchor, that part of an anchor to which the cable is fastened. - Ring of Venus, in palmistry , a curved line running below the mounts of Apollo and Saturn. See mount1 , 5.- Ring settlement, in busine transactions, a settlement made by means of a ring. See def. 7. Where it appears that several parties have contracts between each other, corresponding in all respects (except as to price), and that a ring settlement can be made, the party finding said "ring" shall notify all parties thereto, leaving with each a copy thereof, and get their acknowledgment, from which time the said ring shall be in force.