flegm, fleam

[PHLEGM.] flēiçh, v. [FLEECH.] *fleigh, pret . of v. [FLY, v.] *flēme, *flemen, *file omen, v. t . [A. S. fléman, flyman; Icel. flæma .] To banish, to drive out, to expel. *flēme (1), *flæme, s . [A. S. fléma , flýma.] One banished; an exile, an outcast, a fugitive. [FLEME, verb.] "Six yer and a month he was fleme." -Beket, 1,850. *fleme (2), s. [FLUME.] *file-mens-firth, *fly-mans-fyrmth, s. [A. S. flyman-feormth, flyman-fyrmth, from flyman , gen it. of flýma an exile, a fugitive; feormth , fyrmth = harbor, refuge.] 1. The offense of harboring a fugitive from justice. 2. An asylum for outlaws or fugitives. "[It] ill becomes your rank and birth To make your towers a flemensfirth." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , iv. 21. *flēm'-er, s . [Eng. flem (e); -er.] One who banishes, drives away, or out. "Flemer of feendes." -Chaucer: C. Т. , 4,880.