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This week's theme Illustrated words This week's words smalto agnosia chouse cobber rimy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg rimy PRONUNCIATION: (RY-mee) MEANING: adjective: Covered with frost; frostlike. ETYMOLOGY: From rime (frost), from Old English hrim. Cartoonist: Doug Pike routh: abundance USAGE: "Wild and frozen and mad, nothing but slow-cracking glaciers and phenomenally unfriendly seas and long-broken huts on rimy windswept beaches haunted by the spectres of chill Russian miners." Euan Ferguson; Why Are They Cool? The Observer (London, UK); Apr 23, 2006. Explore "rimy" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to. -Napoleon Bonaparte, general and politician (1769-1821)

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