Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as ream.

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  • verb Alternative form of rame.

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Examples

  • After being asked about AE.'s performance this week, the Army said it suspended the company from eligibility for future contracts, but AE. President E.raim E. Diveroli tells the paper he wasn't aware of that action.

    An Evolutional Leap 2008

  • I keepz finkin dat raim meenz sumfin moar dan wut it sez, but i nawt no wut.

    Halp! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • That's where the coal is transferred from shuttle cars or raim (ph) cars onto a conveyor belt to bring it outside.

    CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2006 2006

  • Uncle Gabriel has only lately assumed the additional character of father-in-law to Ephraim, for he declared that none but Eph-raim should be his pet daughter's husband.

    A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah" Leopold Kompert

  • We must bear away south, so we tried that, and I asked a peasant sitting out With his crops if he would guide us to the Alam Bagh. 1e raim lie was too old and lame, and Kavanaugh lost trio temper and roared at him, at which the fellow ran oll ahrtrking, and the dogs began to bark and we had to run Irrr it and Kavanaugh went headlong into a thorn hur4lt (And this, as he'd remarked, was one of the Deeds tl4. rr 'saved the Empire; it's in all the books.)

    Fiancée 2010

  • And fince Diodorus affures us that the eldeft Promotheus lived in the time of Ofiris, whom Cumberland has proved to be Mif - raim, the fon of Ham, Japhets brother, we fhall perceive that Arcadia is intimated by thefe Greek writers, to be planted about the third generation after the flood, not long after the planting of Egypt by Mizraim.

    Collectanea de rebus hibernicis .. 1786

  • Immo ipfi profcripti, & Ban» ntti intcr fe ipfos poflbnt eodem moido fe ad iavicem inttrncere, militat raim eadem r» -

    Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

  • We must bear away south, so we tried that, and I asked a peasant sitting out With his crops if he would guide us to the Alam Bagh. 1e raim lie was too old and lame, and Kavanaugh lost trio temper and roared at him, at which the fellow ran oll ahrtrking, and the dogs began to bark and we had to run Irrr it and Kavanaugh went headlong into a thorn hur4lt (And this, as he'd remarked, was one of the Deeds tl4. rr 'saved the Empire; it's in all the books.)

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • We must bear away south, so we tried that, and I asked a peasant sitting out With his crops if he would guide us to the Alam Bagh. 1e raim lie was too old and lame, and Kavanaugh lost trio temper and roared at him, at which the fellow ran oll ahrtrking, and the dogs began to bark and we had to run Irrr it and Kavanaugh went headlong into a thorn hur4lt (And this, as he'd remarked, was one of the Deeds tl4. rr 'saved the Empire; it's in all the books.)

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • "When father comes back again," said Eph-raim, "he must know where to find us.

    A Ghetto Violet From "Christian and Leah" Leopold Kompert

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