hoar vs rime

hoar

noun
  • A white or greyish-white colour. 

  • Hoariness; antiquity. 

adj
  • Hoarily bearded. 

  • Of a white or greyish-white colour. 

rime

noun
  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. 

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