a. Now dial. or arch. Forms: 5 elmyn, (6–7 elming), 5–9 elmin, 5– elmen. [f. ELM + -EN.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to an elm-tree.

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1494.  Fabyan, VII. 585. They were hanged vpon an elmyn tree.

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1599.  T. M[oufet], Silkwormes, 56. Tender Elming bud May … be giuen in steede of foode.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 386. Let him feed vpon … Elming boughs.

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1676.  Hobbes, Iliad, VI. 402. Planted about it many Elmen-trees.

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1807.  Crabbe, Hall Justice. We slept beneath the elmin tree.

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1813.  Scott, Rokeby, II. xxvii. Leaning against the elmin tree.

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1881.  F. T. Palgrave, Visions of Eng., 21. The elmen leaf Thinn’d into gold, and fell.

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  2.  Made of the wood of the elm-tree.

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1466.  Mann. & Househ. Exp., 323. Item, for lx. fete of elmen borde, xx.d.

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1648.  Bury Wills (1850), 209. A great chest of elming borde.

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  3.  Composed of elm-trees.

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1876.  World, No. 106. 19. The elmen bowers are in their prime of foliage.

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