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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. Printer's ream, twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. Knight.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To cream; to mantle. [Scot.] A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. Sir W. Scott.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 5

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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