leam

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The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name But it befell this.

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  1. A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing. [Obsolete or Scotch.] The grete superfluite Of youre reede colera, parde, Which causeth folk to dremen, in here dremes, Of arwes, and of fyr with reede leemes. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 110. When the ingle lowed with an eiry leme, Late, late in the gloamin' Kilmeny came hame. Hogg, Kilmeny.
  2. To gleam; shine; glow. [Obsolete or Scotch.] The lawnces with loraynes, and lemande scheldes, Lyghtenande as the levenynge, and lemand al over. Morts Arthurs (E. E. T. S.), l. 2463. And when she spake her eyes did leame, as fire. Mir. for Mags., p. 34.
  3. Same as lime.
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  • I wanted to leam which of them I could order to do a job—even though it might mean their deaths. —  Rouge Warrior - Richard Marcinko
  • It is hard to expect students who do not speak English to leam how to read and write in English fluently within a one year time period. —  Lehigh Valley Ramblings
  • It would be chauvinistic and wrong to assume that say why, and thus do not know they are descendants of Jews who centuries ago had to hide their Jewishness in order to escape popular individualism is uniquely American because a number the Inquisition. of newcomers arrived in America with individualistic values and had only to leam the distinctively American ones. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Free agency as an avenue to build a team is the poorest choice a leam has available to them. —  Silver And Black Pride
  • The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name But it befell this. —  Waverley
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  1. from Middle English leeme, leme, leome, from Anglo-Saxon leóma (= Old Saxon liomo = Icel, ljōmi), a gleam, ray, beam, flash of light, contr. of *leóhma, with formative -ma (cf. Latin lumen, light, with formative -men), akin to leóht (with formative -t, orig. -th), light: see light, n. and a.
  2. from Middle English leemen, lemen, from Anglo-Saxon ly¯man, *līman, in comp. ā-līman (=. Icelandic ljōma), gleam, flash, shine, from leóma, a gleam: see leam, n.
  3. Also leem, leme, limb; perhaps ult. identical with limb, v.; cf. Norwegian lema, lemma, lima, Icelandic lima, dismember.
  4. Also limb; apparently a variant of limb, with a form and sense depending on the verb leam.
  5. Origin obscure.
 

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