eame
English
Noun
eame (plural eames)
- Obsolete form of eam. (an uncle).
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
- Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
References
- eame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Amee, EMEA, Emae
Middle English
Noun
eame
- (Late Middle English) Alternative form of em