释义 |
▪ I. † heam Obs. or dial. [A dial. variant of hame n.1] The amnion of an animal (= caul n.1 5 b); the secundine.
1681Waller Advice to Painter ii. 2 (Brand) Then draw a Haw-thorn Bush, and let him place The Heam upon't. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Heam (in Beasts) is the same thing with the after-birth in women. ▪ II. heam var. hame2, eme, uncle. |