Obs. exc. dial. [f. LEAM v.1 + -ING2.] Gleaming, flashing, shining.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 5754. Þan cald on him our lauerd dright, Vt of his mikel lemand light.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 447. A sterre wiþ a briȝt lemynge creest.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 12517. The breme lowe Of the leymonde laite.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, II. xii. (xi.) 90. Lemand armour and schynand scheildis brycht.
1567. Drant, Horace’s Ep., xvi. E viij. A leminge lampe of light.
1611. Cotgr., Radieux, radiant, shining … leaming, full of beams.
17[?]. Jolly Goshawk, xxxiii. in Child, Ballads (1886), II. 361/2. With lily-white cheeks, and lemin een.
1839. Bailey, Festus, vi. (1848), 60. Like a shipwrecked stranger in a lighthouse, I have looked down upon the utter side Of such thoughts from the leeming room of reason.
