adv. Obs. Also 4 comparative lomer, lommere. [aphetic form of OE. ʓelóme Y-LOME.] Frequently; phr. oft and lome.
c. 1200. Moral Ode, 11, in Trin. Coll. Hom., 220. Alto lome ich habbe igult a werke and a worde.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XX. 237. For lomer [C. xxiii. 238 lommere] he lyeth þat lyflode mote begge, Þan he þat laboureth for lyflode & leneth it beggeres.
c. 1400. Beryn, 1671. For many a tyme and offt, (I can nat sey how lome) He hath been in yeur marchis.
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 3887. Bot þey preyȝede so ofte & so lome, þat [etc.].
c. 1425. Seven Sag. (P.), 1892. There was contek ofte and lome Bytwen Pule and the cité of Rome.
c. 1475. Partenay, 119. So As ye may hire sondry tymes lome.
