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Son(e)-beme, n. Also: sonne-, sown-, sunne-and -beim, -beym(e, -beame, -baime. [ME and e.m.E. sun(n)ebaem (Orm), sonne-bem (c1290), sunbeme (Cursor M.), sunne beame (1540-1), sun beam (Milton), OE sun(n)béam, sunne béam.] A sunbeam, a beam or ray of sunlight. a1400 Leg. S. xxv 450.
Of his face come a leme As it had bene a sone-beme a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 494.
As motis … in sown-beme fare 1490 Irland Mir. I 40/4.
Als cleire as the licht of the sone schawis the powdere and motis in the sone beyme 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1987.
Now his estait schynis like the sone beme [L. sonne beme] 1513 Doug. ii xii 63.
The figur fled as lycht wynd or the son beym [Ruddim. sonne beme] 15.. Lichtoun Dreme 52 (M).
Syn I tuik the sone beim in my neif c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6173.
Without impediment, pas, Siclyke as doith the sone baime throw the glas 1570 Leslie 74.
Ane starn … quhilk gaif greit lycht lyke ane sone beame 1579, 1617 Despauter (1579).
Lubar, the sone beame [1617 sunne beame] 1622-6 Bisset II 182/21.
The sea in the sone bemis is goldin
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