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Leme

//liːm// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam. obsolete

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To shine. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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