wem

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  1. A spot; scar; fault; blemish; taint. Beren your body into overy place … Withoute wem of yow, thurgh foul or fair. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1, 113. The shaft must be made round, nothing fiat, without gall or wem, for this purpose. Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 121.
  2. A spot; scar; fault; blemish; taint. Beren your body into overy place … Withoute wem of yow, thurgh foul or fair. Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1, 113. The shaft must be made round, nothing fiat, without gall or wem, for this purpose. Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 121. Rubbe out the wrinckles of the minde, and be not curious about the weams in the face. Lyly, Euphues and his England (Arber's reprint, IV. 463).
  3. To corrupt; vitiate. Drant.
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  1. Early modern English also weam; from Middle English wem, wemme, altered, after the verb, from *wam, *wom, from Anglo-Saxon wam, wom (wamm-, womm-), spot, blot, sin, = Old Saxon wam = OFries. wam (in wlitiwam) = Old High German wamm = Icelandic vamm = Gothic (Moesogothic) wamm, a spot, blemish. Cf. wem, v.
  2. from Middle English wemmen, from Anglo-Saxon wemman (= Old High German gi-wemman = Gothic (Moesogothic) ana-wammjan), spot, blemish, etc., from wam (wamm-), a spot: see wem, n.
  3. A shortened form of weam, wame, a dial. form of womb.
 

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