fleme

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English flīema (“fugitive, exile, outlaw”).

Noun

fleme (plural flemes)

1. (obsolete) One who is banished; an exile; outcast; fugitive.

Related terms

• outfleme

Etymology 2

From Middle English flemen, from Old English flȳman, flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight”).

Alternative forms

• fleem

Verb

fleme (third-person singular simple present flemes, present participle fleming, simple past and past participle flemed)

1. (obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.
   • a. 1472, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxviij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.

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Middle English

Noun

fleme

1. Alternative form of flewme