▪ I. † heam Obs. or dial.
[A dial. variant of hame n.1]
The amnion of an animal (= caul n.1 5 b); the secundine.
| 1681 Waller Advice to Painter ii. 2 (Brand) Then draw a Haw-thorn Bush, and let him place The Heam upon't. 1726 Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Heam (in Beasts) is the same thing with the after-birth in women. |
▪ II. heam
var. hame2, eme, uncle.