Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal form of
hame .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.
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- noun The
afterbirth orsecundus of ananimal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a certain stoicism and humility to be found in that philosophy, articulated most clearly in Ecclesiastes but evidenced also in common-use words and phrases like "heam", "mektoub" or "in God's hands" ... but it can also be deeply fatalistic, deterministic to the point of being defeatist.
Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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There's a certain stoicism and humility to be found in that philosophy, articulated most clearly in Ecclesiastes but evidenced also in common-use words and phrases like "heam", "mektoub" or "in God's hands" ... but it can also be deeply fatalistic, deterministic to the point of being defeatist.
A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006
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When I bought my first serger, everbody I knew received napkins for Christmas….but I cheated and used a rolled hem instead of a sewn heam.
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Tendrils r~ on the native heam. pupils narrowed, and hands raised weapons anew.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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"Eighty's thy stint, but thou's gotten eighty-twee; thou can tak heam wi 'thee twee o' yon three-yeer-owds, an 'mind thou counts straight next yeer."
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Islanders for 30 -- _heam-umdjome ruktei_, 1 man (and a) half. [
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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