Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spot; scar; fault; blemish; taint.
- To corrupt; vitiate.
- An old form of
warn . - noun A spot; scar; fault; blemish; taint.
- noun The belly; the wame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.
- noun obsolete Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.
- noun obsolete The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
spot ;stain ;mark ;scar ;weal ;bruise . - noun A (
moral )blemish ;fault ; blemish;taint . - noun
Neglect ;damage . - verb transitive To
injure ordisfigure ;blemish ;mark ;scar . - verb transitive To
defile ;pollute ;corrupt ;vitiate . - verb transitive To
violate (one's word).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Be of good cheer, you will come off without either scar or scratch, wem or wound.
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Ai felt saem way wem mai kitteh Mouche went ober teh rainbo brij.
My cute innocent face - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Sub – Prior with astonishment; “neither wem nor wound — not as much as a rent in his frock!”
The Monastery 2008
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"What if I wem to say that your good will would be sufficient?"
Sign of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1987
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Also maidenhood of body without wem is common to them all, and so is birth also.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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I sang "Ein Jungling liebt ein Mädchen," of Schumann, and when I came to the line, "Und wem das just passieret, dem bricht das Herz entzwei," I heard a mournful sigh.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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If you cannot arrange with Czerny to bring Carl home, he must not go at all; “trau, schau, wem!”
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Wallace, Lady 1866
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While he was in the house, Anna Vassilyevna did not see Elena, and had to be content with Zoya, who waited on her very devotedly, but kept thinking to herself: '_Diesen Insarof vorziehen -- und wem?
On the Eve Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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But no sooner had the knights resumed their station, than the clamour of applause was hushed into a silence, so deep and so dead, that it seemed the multitude wem afraid even to breathe.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Sub-Prior as well as his chains would permit; "nay, then, I will never trust ashen shaft and steel point more -- It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound -- not as much as a rent in his frock!"
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
tbtabby commented on the word wem
Noun: A stain, flaw, or scar.
October 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word wem
Heeres a wench (said he) of as cleare a skin as Susanna, shee hath not a wemme on her flesh from the soale of the foote to the crowne of the head: how thinke you master doctor, will shee not serue the turne?
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010
qms commented on the word wem
A tight ship will shine like a gem
And gleam from its tiller to stem.
On bright decks unblemished
The cordage is flemished
And sails billow white without wem.
June 20, 2015