tearme

tearme (plural tearmes)

1. Obsolete spelling of term
   • 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: John Wolfe, p. 8,

     […] some terrible bombarder of tearmes, as wilde as wildfire, that at the first flash of his fury, would leaue me thunder-stricken vpon the ground, or at the last volley of his outrage, would batter me to dust, and ashes.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, stanza 7, page 494:

     So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine.

   • 1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institvtes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers, OCLC 84760833:

     this tearme ( hotchpot ) is but a tearme similitudinary, and is as much to say , as to put the lands in frankmarriage and the other lands in fee simple together

• Mateer, Teamer, atreme, merate, metrae, remate, retame, reteam, teamer