Beman vs Leman - What's the difference?
beman | leman |
To furnish or fill with men; man.
*1895 , Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga library :
(archaic) One beloved; a lover, a sweetheart of either sex (especially a secret lover, gallant, or mistress).
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*:THenne within an houre there came the knyghte to whome the pauelione ought / And he wende that his lem? had layne in that bedde / and soo he laid hym doune besyde syr Launcelot / and toke hym in his armes and beganne to kysse hym / And whanne syre launcelot felte a rough berd kyssyng hym / he starte oute of the bedde lyghtely / and the other kny?t after hym / and eyther of hem gate their swerdes in theire handes
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.i:
*:Faire Venus seemde vnto his bed to bring / Her, whom he waking euermore did weene, / To be the chastest flowre, that ay did spring / On earthly braunch, the daughter of a king, / Now a loose Leman to vile seruice bound.
*1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
*:The prisoner I speak of is better booty—a jolly monk riding to visit his leman , an I may judge by his horse-gear and wearing apparel.
(often negative) A paramour.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song :
*:And he sent the news to William the Lyon, sitting drinking the wine and fondling his bonny lemans in Edinburgh Town, and William made him the Knight of Kinraddie.
As a verb beman
is to furnish or fill with men; man.As a proper noun leman is
geneva (lake).beman
English
Verb
(bemann)- Now do so well as to fare to meet me at thine earliest, and as much bemanned as may be; and let us be both together whatever may happen.