rīma, ae, f. [for rigma, from rig, ringor; hence, that gapes, yawns],
I 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. 105 (opp. tacere, continere); Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 24.