Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete form of ream.
- Same as ream.
- To cry or moan.
- n. A dialectal variant of rime.
- n. The Hebrew name of an animal mentioned in the Old Testament (Job xxxix. 9, etc.), variously translated ‘unicorn,’ ‘wild ox,’ and ‘ox-antelope,’ now identified as Bos primigenius.
Wiktionary
- n. A large horned animal in ancient Hebrew literature, variously identified with the wild ox or aurochs (Bos primigenius), the Arabian oryx, or a mythical creature (compare unicorn).
- v. transitive, nautical To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The Hebrew name of a horned wild animal, probably the Urus.
- v. (Naut.) To open (the seams of a vessel's planking) for the purpose of calking them.
Etymologies
- Compare ream ("to make a hole in") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sometimes "unicorn" or reem is a mere poetical symbol or abstraction; but the buffalo is the animal referred to here, from the contrast to the tame ox, used in ploughing (Job 39: 10, 12). abide -- literally, "pass the night." crib -- (Isa 1: 3).”
“Report Abuse this is for the mad person called reem.”
“Can you upload pictures of more normal sized rooms? reem”
“My dad informs me of when he used ‘mearce’ to mean anything bad when he was a kid, and ‘reem’ to mean anything good, imagine my surprise when I found the words still in use today in another city!”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Marissa’s Review Forum
“I was not going to comment … but come on man .. let the people reem ya if they are fans, let them praise you if they are not … but please don't be a total jerk to defend yourself and these articles …”
“Seriously though s far as I can see under a reem of various bits of legislation/common law the officers acted correctly.”
“Seriously, the one and only Official Version has reem, nine times.”
Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb
“Given multiple traditions for what was meant by reem, they could have ducked the issue and simply transliterated the word, like they did with Leviathan and Behemoth.”
Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb
“You are apparently assuming that of course the Bible was somewhere just had to be talking about unicorns, and since we therefore know its in there, by process of elimination of the rest of the entire Bible, we end up deducing reem can only mean unicorn.”
Creationists on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin - The Panda's Thumb
“Write to Reem Shamseddine at reem. shamseddine@dowjones.com,”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reem’.
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bok, bongo and 479 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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