eme

plural emes · alternative eam · alternative eem · alternative eame · alternative neam · alternative neame · alternative neme

1. obsolete outside ScotlandAn uncle.

   Whilst they were young, Cassibalane their Eme / Was by the people chosen in their sted […]

   Whilst they were young, Cassibalain, their uncle, / was chosen by the people in their stead […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   Soo this yonge syre Trystram rode vnto his eme kynge Marke of Cornewayle / ¶ And whanne he came there / he herd say that ther wold no knyghte fyghte with syre Marhaus / Thenne yede sir Tristram vnto his eme and sayd / syre yf ye wylle gyue me thordre of knyghthode / I wille doo bataille with syr Marhaus

   So this young knight, Tristan, rode unto his uncle, king Mark of Cornwall / ¶ And when he came thither / he heard say that no knight there would fight Sir Marhaus / Then went Sir Tristan unto his uncle and said / Sire, if ye give me the order of knighthood / I shall battle Sir Marhaus

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “quintum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII

2. ScotlandFriend.

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