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hama

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Add: a natural covering, integument, membrane, skin, slough of a serpent
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  • Inluvies secundarum hama

    in quo fit parvulus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 61.
  • Mǽdenlicum haman virginali puerperio, Hpt. Gl. 414, 50. Matrice cildhaman

    puerperio, utero

    haman,
      436, 6.
  • Seó nǽddre áwurpð ǽlce geáre hire ealdan haman, and bið ðonne befangen mid eallníwum felle,

      Nap, 35.
  • Hér cóm in gangan in spíder (inspíder?) wiht hæfde him his haman on handa,

      Lch. iii. 42, 12.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. hame. Cf. Icel. hamr a skin, especially of birds.]
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v. feorh-hama, fiþer-hama.
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