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Webster 1913 Edition

Ream

Ream

(rēm)
,
Noun.
[AS.
reám
, akin to G.
rahm
.]
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
[Scot.]

Ream

,
Verb.
I.
To cream; to mantle.
[Scot.]
A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess,
reamed
with excellent claret.
Sir W. Scott.

Ream

,
Verb.
T.
[Cf.
Reim
.]
To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Ream

,
Noun.
[OE.
reme
, OF.
rayme
, F.
rame
(cf. Sp.
resma
), fr. Ar.
rizma
a bundle, especially of paper.]
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
Printer’s ream
,
twenty-one and a half quires.
[Eng.]
A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream.
Knight.

Ream

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reamed
(rēmd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Reaming
.]
[Cf. G.
räumen
to remove, to clear away, fr.
raum
room. See
Room
.]
To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ream

REAM

,
Noun.
[L. remus., ramus, a branch, for the shoots of trees or shrubs were the first bands used by men. See Gird and Withe.]
A bundle or package of paper, consisting of twenty quires.

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