eame

English

Noun

eame (plural eames)

  1. Obsolete form of eam. (an uncle).
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
      Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam. // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.

References

  • eame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Middle English

Noun

eame

  1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of em
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