Obs. Forms: 1 flíema, fléma, flýma, 2–4 fleme, 3 flæme, [OE. flíema (:—earlier *fléamja), f. fléam: see next.] A fugitive, exile, outlaw.

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a. 1000.  Cædmon’s Gen., 1020 (Gr.). Þu flema scealt widlast wrecan.

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a. 1000.  Cædmon’s Gen., iv. 12. Þu … bist flyma ȝeond ealle eorþan.

3

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 157. We wunieð here alse fleme.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 5952. Alle þe flæmen þe iflowe buð of Rome.

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c. 1305.  St. Dunstan, 101, in E. E. P. (1862), 37. He drof him out of Engelond: and let him grede fleme.

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