A length of bright horizon rimm'd the dark

Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. All night they ate the boar Serimner's flesh, And from their horns, with silver rimm'd, drank mead. M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 2. To plow or slash the sides of, as mackerel, to make them seem fatter. rim2 (rim), n . [Early mod. E. also rim me , rymme ; rim , rym , ryme , earlier reme , a membrane, reóma , a membrane, ligament, = OS. riomo , reomo , a thong, latchet, = D. riem , a thong (see riem ), = OHG. riomo , riumo , thong, band, girdle, rein, etc., MHG. rieme, G. riemen , a thong, band, etc., = Sw. Dan. rem , thong, a strap, = Gr. ῥῆμα , a tow-line, ῥύειν , ἐρύειν, draw. No connection with rim1 .] 1. A membrane. [Prov. Eng.] As is the walnutte, so is this fruite [nutmeg] defended with a double couering, as fyrste with a grene huske, vnder the whiche is a thinne skinne or rim me like a nette, encompa ing the shell of a nutte. R. Eden , tr. of Sebastian Munster (First Books on Amer[ica, ed. Arber, p. 35). 2. The membrane inclosing the intestines; the peritoneum; hence, loosely, the intestines; the belly. [Obsolete or provincial.] Alle the rymez by the rybbez radly thay lance. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1343. I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat In drops of crimson blood. rime The transition of sense, though paralleled by a similar development of number and tale , was prob. due in part to a ociation with L. rhyth mus, ML. also rhithmus , rithmus , ritmus , which, with the Rom. forms, and later the E. form rhythm, seems to have been constantly confused with rime , the two words having the sense 'verse' in common. Connection of AS. rim , etc., with Gr. ἀριθμός, number (see arith metic ), Ir. Gael. aireamh , number, = W. eirif , number, Ir. rimh = W. rhif , number, is improbable.] 14. Number.