walm

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  1. A bubble in boiling. Wyth vij. walmes that are so felle, Hote spryngyng out of helle. MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 137. (Halliwell.)
  2. To rise; boil up; bubble. The wikkid werchinge that walmed in her daies, And зit woll here-after but wisdome it lette. Richard the Redeless, iii. 114.

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  1. Middle English walm, from Anglo-Saxon *wealm, wælm (= Old High German walm), literally a boiling up, from weallan. boil, gush forth, as water: see wall, well.
  2. from Middle English walmen, welmen, boil; from walm, n.
 

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