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emme n., from which 1st quot. in sense 1.(a) should be deleted.]
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yimme (n.) Also 3em-, (chiefly early) 3imme, (early) ym-, 3im-; pl. 3immes & (early) 3immæs, gim(m)es, (gen.) gimmen, (dat.) 3immum & (?errors) 3immies, gummes.
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OE gim, gym, oblique gimm-; form in -e- may reflect influence ofME
(a) A precious stone, gem; -- also coll. [quot. c1275];
(b) ~ ston [
n], a gemstone, jewel; ?also, specif. a pearl [quot. a1225(?OE)]; also fig. and in fig. context.
(a)
a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14) 51/2: Heo þa mid glæden mode him to gebrohten goldes & seolfres & deorewurðra gimmen [OE gimma] ungerime heapes. c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343) 130/22: Þa mihti3e men ... haten heom ræste wurcean of marmanstane ... & heom hatem [read: haten] mid 3ymmum ... þæt bed al wreon. c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343) 130/25: Þenne beoð ... þa 3ymmæs toglidene & þæt gold tosceaken. c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34) 20/320: Ah þe meidnes habbeð ... a gerlondesche ... þe flurs þe beoð idrahe þron, ne þe 3immies þrin, ne tellen of hare euene Nis na monnes speche. c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402) 175/2: Deorewurðe ouer gold or & 3immes [Cai: gimmes] of ynde. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut (Clg A.9) 3031: Heo makeden ane tunne of golde and of 3imme [Otho: gimes]. c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108) 382/188: Þat he faire a-greyþed were In pourpre ... and guode 3immes. a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444) 2700: He carf in two gummes [?read: gimmes] of pris Two likenesses. c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11) 10030: Ringes & 3immes al so, & þe calis of þe weued me ssolde þerto. c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch) 8669: Stones precious and 3immes, Gold and siluer þer were inne. a1350 SLeg.Cross (Ashm 43) 344: Þe quene of seluer and gold an riche scryne wro3te And of 3ymmes presiouse. c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622) 3148: Þis coroune he þee sent Of gold and 3ymmes. c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44) 2935: Butlers ... bro3t vp þe wyne In grete gobletis of gold, graythid full of 3ymmes.
(b)
c1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343) 130/18: Þeah ... we mid þam fe3ereste 3ymstanes all uten embihangene beon, þeah þe mon sceal ece ende abidæn. a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487) 135: Nolite spargere Margaritas ante porcos ... Ne sculen 3e nawiht 3imstones leggen swinen to mete. a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34) 95/32: Wel him ðe ... hafð ðat faire scrud of charite, all besett mid 3imstanes of gode werkes. c1225(OE) Wor.Aelfric Gloss.(Wor F.174) 550/45: Gemma: 3imston. c1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34) 6/28: Ich habbe a deore 3imstan ... mi meiðhad i mene. a1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14) 55: Mid brihte 3imstones hore krune is al biset. c1275(?a1200) Lay. Brut (Clg A.9) 10550: Þer-on wes moni 3im-ston [Otho: 3emston] al mid golde bi-gon. a1300 A Mayde Cristes (Jes-O 29) 153: Hit [maidenhood] is ymston of feor iboren. a1300 A Mayde Cristes (Jes-O 29) 175: A-mong alle oþre ymstone þes beoþ deorre in vyche place. c1300 SLeg.Cross (LdMisc 108) 116: Of seluer and of gold one riche schrine heo wrou3te And deorewurthe 3imstones. c1390(?a1325) Adam & E.(2) (Vrn) 221/4: Gyson ... passeþ bi anoþer coost ... þat colde is inne Ifounden, and preciouse stones and 3eem-stones. a1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498) 53/30,31-2: Doumbe bestes lerneþ wisdom þat derneþ in his nest a derworþe 3ymme ston ... Þat derworþe 3ymme ston is Ihesus crist, þat is derworþe ouer alle 3ymme stones.
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