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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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12 words match “RIMY”

RIMY a.
Abounding with rime; frosty.
DRIMYS n.
A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
GRIMY a.
Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
PERIMYSIAL a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the perimysium.
PERIMYSIUM n.
The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.
PRIMY a.
Being in its prime. [Obs.] "The youth of primy nature." Shak.
TRIMYARIAN n.
A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
CHUB n.
and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.
GRIMILY adv.
In a grimy manner.
GRIMINESS n.
The state of being grimy.
SUCKER n.
e white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
WINTER'S BARK n.
The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, or Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.