riming

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of rime

Adjective

• That rime (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something.

Noun

• The action or process of dye red-brown by steep in water with alder twigs.
• The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost).

Origin

• Regular conjugation (rime + -ing).
• First attested in 1822; formed as rime + -ing (suffix forming present participial adjectives).
• First attested in 1873; formed as rime + -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).
• First attested in 1948; formed as rime + -ing (suffix forming abstract nouns of action).