Obs. Forms: 1–3 arm(e, earm, 2 erm(e, 3 ærm, areme. [Common Teutonic: cogn. w. OS. arm, OFris. erm, arm, OHG. aram (mod.G. arm), Goth. arms, ON. armr.]

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  1.  Poor, needy.

2

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Mark xii. 42. Þa com án earm wuduwe.

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c. 1200.  Moral Ode, 227. Edi men and arme.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 23941. Auere ælche ærmen [1250 neod-fol] mon, þe æð scal iwurðen.

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  2.  Miserable, wretched.

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1104.  O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.). Eall þis wæs … þas arme leode mid to treʓienne.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 27. Drieð his erme saule in eche pine.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 14893. Alre kinge si he ærmest.

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a. 1250.  Owl & Night., 1160. Both sori and areme.

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