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White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.

A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

To compose in rhyme; to versify. [Obs.] [Lays] rimeyed in their first Breton tongue. Chaucer.

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

One who, or that which, begrimes.

To berhyme.

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

See Chlorometry.

An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson.

Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury. [Obs.] Shak.

Free from crime; innocent. Shak.

Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.

causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc. I can repair That detriment, if such it be. Milton.

Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison.

The quality of being detrimental; injuriousness.