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Webster 1913 Edition

(ēm)

Noun.

[AS.

eám

; akin to D.

oom

, G.

ohm

oheim

; cf. L.

avunculus

Uncle.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Noun.

Uncle.

eame ‎(plural eames)

Obsolete form of eme. (an uncle).
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:
  Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.
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