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Hame vs Eame - What's the difference?

hame | eame |

In obsolete terms the difference between hame and eame

is that hame is a covering, skin, membrane while eame is (A form of) eme (an uncle).

hame

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hame, home, from (etyl) hama, . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A covering, skin, membrane.
    • Related terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ham, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Etymology 4

    From earlier haum, haume.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    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)