sloom2 (slom)

i. [Also dial. sloum, sleam; (Sire Telomew) cairys into a cabayne, quare the kyng ligges, Fand him slomande and on slepe, and sleely him rayses. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), Glo ., p. 193. (K. Alex., p. 176.) 2. To become weak or flaccid, as plants and flowers touched by frost. [Now only prov. Eng. in both uses.]