Obs. [f. LAME a.] Lameness; infirmity.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 22323 (Cott.). A mikel man … Luued wel wit-vten lame, wit-vten last al his licam. Ibid. (c. 1340), 5153 (Trin.). I may not rise he seide for lame.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VIII. xxxv. 5243. He sayd, that he wald [ayl] na-thyng…. Thus hapnyd till hym off this lame.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xxviii. 34. Off God grit kyndness may ȝe clame, That helpis his peple fra cruke and lame.
