Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
cleam . - noun In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a hexactine rod bearing alternate barbs on the opposite sides.
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The water slughornes [15] wythe a swotye [16] cleme [17]
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Etcum, vtretulimus, impcrfc - ftituetiamiftu, matexia ex qua diffimsefubftantiarum cleme* miftifunc, & in codcm formali tafinc, noncdup! ica bar.
Antoniana Margarita: opus nempe physicis, medicis ac theologis non minus ... 1554
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