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  • noun Obsolete spelling of claim.
  • verb Obsolete spelling of claim.

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Examples

  • [260J and giue vp all her Riiilit title claime and interest to and in the abovesaid bargained and sould premises vnto him the said John Parmiter his heires and Assignes In witness whereof John Scarlet and Tamasin his wife have hereunto set their hands and alfixed their Scales in Boston aforesaid this tirst of March one thousand sixe hundred Seaventy one or Seaventy two Annocf Regni Regis Carolj secundix. xiiij ''.

    Suffolk deeds 1653

  • Wilson claime, in a news interiew, that there is a double standard as regards this issue citing that Bush was openly booed in a similar setting.

    Republicans say Carter playing 'race card' 2009

  • I think it helps to prove the hypocricy I claime earlier, but we are both biased on the issue.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Only Bush loving trolls come on here with different screennames, or try to say they are female when they are male, or claime they are 40 when they are 20, or boast they are a lawyer when actually they cut hair in a Salon in Soho!

    Think Progress » Breaking: Terrorist Zarqawi Killed in Iraq Air Strikes 2006

  • Neverthelesse, to avoid the breach of order, and to claime no priviledge by my place, of not performing what I ought to do: prove as it may, a Tale you must have, and thus I proceed.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Afterward, she rehearsed the speeches betweene the Joyner, and him that laide claime to the Chest, giving him to understand thereby, how Ruggiero was taken in the Lombards house.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Sonne to the Lord Ambassador, he wondred thereat not a little, and being somewhat ashamed of his fortunes errour, confessed, that the claime of Phineo was comformable to Law, and ought not to be denied him; going presently to the Counsell Chamber, sending for Signior

    The Decameron 2004

  • Then said the principall of the Theevish crew: This horse shall be ours, in regard he hath no other Master, and let the owner come claime him of us.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Nicoluccio Caccianimico: this Lady (by good right) is mine, and no man els by any just title, can lay any claime to her.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Lady (quoth he) I met your Husband upon the way, which granting mine accesse to see you; I come to claime your long delayed promise, the time being now so favourable for it.

    The Decameron 2004

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