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See Leme. [Obs.] Holland.

A dog held by a leam.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.; a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like an isosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.

Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.

shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

eams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow.

rom this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. Mercy with her genial beam. Keble.

Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

To turn to a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.

To flash, as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder. [Obs.] "Flames of fouldering heat." Spenser.

To glisten; to gleam. [Obs.] Prior.

A faint, unsteady light; feeble, scattered rays of light; also, a gleam. Gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls. Tennyson.