HEM/ : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: HEM/	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for HEM/
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, interj. An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm. Cough or cry hem, if anybody come. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, n. An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. [bd]His morning hems.[b8] --Spectator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, v. i. [[?][?][?]. See {Hem}, interj.] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to hesitate in speaking. [bd]Hem, and stroke thy beard.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, n. [AS. hem, border, margin; cf. Fries. h[84]mel, Prov. G. hammel hem of mire or dirt.] 1. The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling. 2. Border; edge; margin. [bd]Hem of the sea.[b8] --Shak. 3. A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp edge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, pron. [OE., fr. AS. him, heom, dative pl. of. h[?] he. See {He}, {They}.] Them [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hem \Hem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hemmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hemming}.] 1. To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge of. --Wordsworth. 2. To border; to edge All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe. --Spenser. {To hem about}, {around}, [or] {in}, to inclose and confine; to surround; to environ. [bd]With valiant squadrons round about to hem.[b8] --Fairfax. [bd]Hemmed in to be a spoil to tyranny.[b8] --Daniel. {To hem out}, to shut out. [bd]You can not hem me out of London.[b8] --J. Webster.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hem of a garment, the fringe of a garment. The Jews attached much importance to these, because of the regulations in Num. 15:38, 39. These borders or fringes were in process of time enlarged so as to attract special notice (Matt. 23:5). The hem of Christ's garment touched (9:20; 14:36; Luke 8:44).