leme

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

/liːm/

Etymology From Middle English leem, leme, leam, from Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”); akin to light.

Obsolete A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.

Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world.1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

verb

Etymology From Middle English leem, leme, leam, from Old English lēoma (“light, brightness”); akin to light.

Obsolete To shine.

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