, an; m: ǽ-cumbe, an; n ? [cemban to comb]. I. oakum, that which is combed, the coarse part of hemp,--Hards, flax, tow; stuppa = στύππη,στύπη [v. heordas stuppæ, R. 68] :-- Afyl ða wúnde, and mid ácum-ban besweð fill the wound, and swathe up with tow. L. M. 1, 1; Lchdm, ii. 22, 21. Ǽcumbe stuppa, Ælfc. Gl. 64; Som. 69, 2; Wrt. Voc. 40, 36. II. the thing pruned or trimmed, properly of trees, and figuratively of other things, hence,--Prunings, clippings, trimmings; putamen, hinc,--putamina non solum arborum sunt, verum omnium rerum purgamenta. Nam quicquid ex quacumque re projicitur, putamen appellate :-- Ácumba puta-men, Mone B.3702. Ácumban putamina, 3703, p. 407. III. reduced to ashes, it was used as a substitute for σπόδιον = σποδός Wood ashes; spodium Græcorum nihil aliud est, quam radix Alcannæ combusta, officinæ ustum ebur ejus loco substituunt :-- To sealfe, ním. ácumban, cneówholen for a salve, take the ashes of oakum, butcher's broom, L. M. 1, 33; Lchdm, ii. 80, 11. Ácumba ashes of oakum, 1, 47; Lchdm, ii. 120, 14.