Rima, rimæ, f. g. Pli. A chinke or cleft in wood or stone, where it is not close ioyned.Caua rima. Lucan. Hiantes rimæ. Luca. Tenuis rima. Claud. A smal chinke.Agere rimas.Ouid.To cleaue: to chappe: to chinke: to bee windshaken as timber is.Naues fatiscunt rimis. Vir. The ships leake and be cleft. Plenus rimarum. Tere. Ful of chinkes: that can keepe no counsaile, but blab out al that he heareth.Rimain inuenire. Plautus. To finde an excuse or meane to scape: to find an hole to creepe out at.Per angustam rimam repere. Hor. Rimas explere.Cic.To fill vp chinkes or cliltes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rīma, ae, f. [for rigma, from rig, ringor; hence, that gapes, yawns], a cleft, crack, chink, fissure (cf. hiatus): angusta, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 29: cava, Prop. 1, 16, 27: patet, Ov. M. 11, 515; cf. hiscit, Plin. 17, 14, 24, 108: tabernae rimas agunt,
are cracked
, Cic. Att. 14, 9, 1; so, rimas agere, Ov. M. 2, 211; 10, 512; and in a like sense, ducere, id. ib. 4, 65: facere,
to make
, id. Tr. 2, 85: explere, to stop up, Cic, Or. 69, 231; cf.: nec te signata juvabunt Limina, persuasae fallere rima sat est, Prop. 4 (5), 1, 146.— 2. = cunnus, Juv. 3, 97.— Poet.: ignea rima micans, i. e. a flash of lightning (qs. cleaving the sky), Verg. A. 8, 392; imitated by Plin. 2, 43, 43, 112.—II.Transf., comically: plenus rimarum sum: hac atque hac perfluo, I am full of chinks, i. e. can keep nothing to myself, conceal nothing, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 25 (opp. tacere, continere); Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 24.