den vs rime

den

noun
  • A squalid or wretched place; a haunt. 

  • Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”) 

  • A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining. 

  • A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together. 

  • A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment. 

verb
  • To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. 

rime

noun
  • A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. 

  • A film or slimy coating. 

  • The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset. 

  • Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. 

  • A step of a ladder; a rung. 

  • A coating or sheet of ice so formed. 

  • Rhyme. 

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century. 

verb
  • To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. 

How often have the words den and rime occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )