eame (pluraleames)

1. Obsolete form ofeam(“an uncle”).
   • 1600,Edward Fairfax, TheJerusalem Delivered ofTasso, 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 wretchedeame.

• “eame”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• Amee,EMEA,Emae

eame

1. (Late Middle English)alternative form ofem

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ͜ɑː.me/

ēame

1. dativesingular ofēam

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