leme

See also: Leme, lemé, and lëmë

English

Alternative forms

• leam, leem

Etymology

From Middle English leem, leme, leam, from Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”); akin to light.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

leme (plural lemes)

1. (obsolete) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.

Verb

leme (third-person singular simple present lemes, present participle leming, simple past and past participle lemed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shine.

References

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

Anagrams

• Emel, mele, Elem, elem., elem, LEEM

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore leemse (“to taste”)

Pronunciation

/lè.mè/

Verb

leme (imperfect lemnɩ, lɛmna)

1. to taste