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leam

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as lime.
  • noun A drain; a cut; in the fen district, a watercourse.
  • To gleam; shine; glow.
  • To separate or remove the shell or husk from (nuts); shell; husk.
  • To become separated from the shell, as nuts; to separate easily from the shell or husk.
  • noun A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
  • noun The shell or husk of a nut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See leme.
  • noun A cord or strap for leading a dog.

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  • noun A cord or strap for leading a dog.
  • noun UK, dialectal A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
  • verb intransitive, UK, dialectal To gleam; shine; glow.

Etymologies

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See leamer, lien.

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From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, *līeman ("to shine"), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmijanan (“to shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljóma ("to glow"), Latin luminō ("light up").

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From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma ("ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning"), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi ("gleam, ray, beam, flash of light"), Latin lumen ("light").

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Examples

  • She might even leam to communicate with her opposite in Phaze.

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  • 'Corn observed them covertly, hoping to leam something that might be useful in his relationship with Nepe.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Later they might round up and question all serfs in the vicinity, and leam that Bane had been seen leaving, but by then it would be far too late.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • This be why none o 'us may contact other beyond the demarked region, lest they leam things illicitly.' '

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • He might leam the secret, but it would spoil her fun.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • "She has to leam adult usage some time," he pointed out, amused.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Blue's experimental community had turned out the smartest androids yet, by making them small and letting them grow and leam in the human manner.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • How am I ever going to even live long enough to leam it all?

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The cities and the creatures of the wild shall leam to coexist.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • That way I could leam it without giving away my hiding place.

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Words that are found in similar contexts

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  2. behast
  3. bont
  4. check/mo
  5. cubular
  6. exating
  7. flasp
  8. fluant
  9. lape
  10. larch
  11. muove
  12. ngle
  13. quastic
  14. snooling
  15. tope
  16. tuation
  17. wiz

variants (1)

Variants

  1. leme

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  • fbharjo commented on the word leam

    a archaic form of the word 'gleam'

    March 26, 2009

  • bilby commented on the word leam

    Twilight's last leaming.

    March 26, 2009

  • qroqqa commented on the word leam

    A synonym, not a form. The similarity of the spelling of the words in Modern English is deceptive: they are from unrelated Old English léoma and glǽm.

    March 26, 2009