- HRÍM
- n.1) rime, hoar frost;2) the black soot on a kettle (ketilhrím).* * *n. [A. S. hrîm; Engl. rime; Dan. rim-frost; cp. Germ. reif]:—rime, hoar frost, Edda 4, Vþm. 31, Korm. (in a verse), Fms. vi. 23 (in a verse), Merl. 1. 51, freq. in mod. usage.COMPDS: hrímdrif, Hrímfaxi, hrímfextr, hrímfrosinn, hrímsteinar, Hrímþursar.II. the black soot on a kettle, ketil-hrím.COMPDS: Hrímgerðr, hrímkaldr, hrímkalkr.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.