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Eame vs Eale - What's the difference?

eame | eale |

As nouns the difference between eame and eale

is that eame is (label) (a form of) (an uncle) while eale is the yale (also "centicore", latin "eale") is a mythical beast found in european mythology most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.

eame

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) (A form of) (an uncle).
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, xlix:
  • *:Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame .
  • :(Spenser)
    • (Webster 1913)

    eale

    English

    Noun

  • The yale (also "centicore", Latin "eale") is a mythical beast found in European mythology. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
  • * Shakespeare, Hamlet (act 1 scene 4)
    • Hamlet:' As infinite as man may undergo--
    Shall in the general censure take corruption
    From that particular fault: the dram of '     eale
    Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
    To his own scandal.
    (Webster 1913)