Words that rhyme with grimme

n 1: the top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip] 2: a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat v 1: be completely full; "His eyes brimmed with tears" 2: fill as much as possible; "brim a cup to good fellowship"

n 1: athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training [syn: gymnasium, gym]

n 1: a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) [syn: hymn, anthem] v 1: sing a hymn 2: praise by singing a hymn; "They hymned their love of God"

n 1: one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper 2: any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree [syn: limb, tree branch] 3: (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet 4: either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow" 5: the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant" 6: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb]

adj 1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee] 2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight- laced, victorian] v 1: assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim" 2: contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" 3: dress primly [syn: prim, prim up, prim out]

n 1: the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object 2: (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended; "the ball hit the rim and bounced off" 3: the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached 4: a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object [syn: flange, rim] 5: the top edge of a vessel or other container [syn: brim, rim, lip] v 1: run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate" 2: furnish with a rim; "rim a hat" 3: roll around the rim of; "the ball rimmed the basket"

n 1: a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater

n 1: a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices

adj 1: used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" [syn: skim, skimmed] n 1: a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water" 2: reading or glancing through quickly [syn: skim, skimming] v 1: travel on the surface of water [syn: plane, skim] 2: move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of [syn: skim over, skim] 3: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down] 4: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter] 5: coat (a liquid) with a layer 6: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream] 7: read superficially [syn: skim, skim over]

adj 1: being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" [syn: slender, slight, slim, svelte] 2: small in quantity; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" [syn: slender, slim] v 1: take off weight [syn: reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down] [ant: gain, put on]

n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn: swimming, swim] v 1: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank" 2: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom [syn: float, swim] [ant: go down, go under, settle, sink] 3: be dizzy or giddy; "my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne" 4: be covered with or submerged in a liquid; "the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy" [syn: swim, drown] 5: move as if gliding through water; "this snake swims through the soil where it lives"

n 1: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality] 2: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim] 2: an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" [syn: notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey]

n 1: the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) [syn: Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm] 2: the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) [syn: Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm]

n 1: United States neoclassical architect (1847-1909) [syn: McKim, Charles Follen McKim]

n 1: a minor match preceding the main event [syn: preliminary, prelim] 2: an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue [syn: preliminary examination, preliminary exam, prelim]

n 1: a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) [syn: patronymic, patronym]