Obs. Forms: 1 flíema, fléma, flýma, 24 fleme, 3 flæme, [OE. flíema (:earlier *fléamja), f. fléam: see next.] A fugitive, exile, outlaw.
a. 1000. Cædmons Gen., 1020 (Gr.). Þu flema scealt widlast wrecan.
a. 1000. Cædmons Gen., iv. 12. Þu bist flyma ȝeond ealle eorþan.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 157. We wunieð here alse fleme.
c. 1205. Lay., 5952. Alle þe flæmen þe iflowe buð of Rome.
c. 1305. St. Dunstan, 101, in E. E. P. (1862), 37. He drof him out of Engelond: and let him grede fleme.