eame

English

Noun

eame (plural eames)

1. 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.

References

• “eame”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Amee, EMEA, Emae

Middle English

Noun

eame

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of em