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▪ I. † toom, n.1 Obs. (in later use only Sc.)
Forms: 3–6 tome, 4 tom, (toume, towme, toym), 5 toom, 6 tume.
[a. ON. tóm n. neut. emptiness, vacuity, leisure, OSw. tōm leisure, occasion, ODa. tōm time, occasion; f. tómr adj. empty: see toom a.]
Vacant or unoccupied time; time free or sufficient for doing something, leisure; a space or interval of time, a while.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 11656 In hor bed hii founde hom in toune þo hii come..Vor to wel cloþi hom hii ne ȝeue hom no tome. a1300Cursor M. 14595 Haf i na tome at ga þar-to. c1315Shoreham i. 2119 Þaȝ he by hyre ne ligge nouȝt, Oþer halt hys ine hys house, In tome. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 134 More..Þen I cowþe telle þaȝ I tom hade. 1375Barbour Bruce v. 642 Or þe toþir had toym to tak His suerde, þe king sic swak him gaiff. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3126 Of Generides dome To speke had thei nomore tome. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 18 Ȝit will I tell, for I haif space & tume, How efterwart he set ane seig to Rome.
b. Time convenient or proper for doing something; opportunity, occasion.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1153 Ȝif ȝe wolde tith [MS. tyȝt] me a tom telle hit I wolde. 1390Gower Conf. I. 249 His Bacheler, which hadde tome, Whan that his lord be nihte slepte, This Ring,..Out of his Pours awey he dede. c1440York Myst. xl. 18 Atte townes for to tarie take we no tent, But take vs tome at þis tyme to talke of sume tales. c1450Bk. Curtasye 10 in Babees Bk. 299 Ther-to the nedys to take the tome.
▪ II. toom, n.2 Sc.
[f. toom v.]
A place where rubbish is or may be emptied out; a ‘coup’.
1882Jamieson, Toom, a place into which rubbish is emptied. 1884Blackw. Mag. June 817/1 The piled-up rubbish of millions of years which has been cast out here as into one vast ‘toom’. 1894Crockett Raiders 226 Great tails [of stones] that spread down the mountain steep, like rubble from a quarry toom.
▪ III. toom, a. Now only Sc. and north. dial.
(tuːm; in mod.Sc. tøm, tʏm)
Forms: α. 1 tóm, 3–6 tōme, (5 tombe, toyme, 6 towme), 5–7 toome, 5– toom. β. 4 tum, 4–7 tume, 6 twme, (?) twyme, 9 Sc. tume, tuim. γ. 8–9 teem, 9 dial. teeam.
[OE. tóm = ON. tómr (Norw., Da., Sw. tom); also OS. tômi, tômig, OHG. zuomîg:—OTeut. *tôm-oz or *tôm-uz (OS. tômia-); ulterior origin unknown. Hence teem v.2]
1. Empty, vacant, containing nothing, void of contents; destitute (of something).
a900Cynewulf Christ 1211 Þæt hy mostun man-weorca tome lifᵹan. a1300Cursor M. 17798 And yee sal find þair tumbs tome [Gött. tume]. Ibid. 17815 Þai sagh þaa tumbs, tum war þai. a1340Hampole Psalter cxliii. 16 Ful of riches and tome of goednes. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxiii. 149 When þai see þe toome vessellez, þai ga and fillez þam with gold. 1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. iv. 76 Certan of godis lufe þat ar toyme. c1440Promp. Parv. 496/2 Toom, or voyde, vacuus. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. i. (Cock & Jasp) iv, As draf, or corne, to fill my tume Intraill. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 365 Thow has a tome purs. 1560Rolland Seven Sages (1837) 1 Of all vertew that Ceitie was maid tome. 1727P. Walker R. Cameron in Biog. Presbyt. (1827) I. 241 There were many toom pulpits in Scotland. 1786Burns Earnest Cry & Prayer vii, Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. vi, The man John Baliol being quite gone, and only the ‘Toom Tabard’ (Empty Gown) remaining. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., As toom as an egg-shell.
γa1774Fergusson Hallowfair Poems (1845) 14 Here, tak a rug, and show your pose Forseeth, my ain's but teem And light the day. 1861E. Waugh Lake Country 180 He was as helpless as a teeam seck.
2. fig. Empty, insubstantial, vain, void, futile.
a1250Owl & Night. 1672 Me þuncþ þu ledest ferde tome. 1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 120 The tume schaddowis smytyn to haue slane. 1568Satir. Poems Ref. xlvi. 27 Till deif ȝow wt tome clatter. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 46 O'er lang, with empty brag, we have been vain Of toom dominion on the plenteous main. 1786G. Frazer Fall of Man 157 Blown up with the toom wind of a flattering empty sound.
†b. Idle, unoccupied. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter xlix. 21 Sitand tome [MS.S. ydel], for it likes þe to speke ill. c1460Towneley Myst. xxx. 125 To stand thus tome thou gars me grete.
3. Comb., as toom-handed, toom-headed, toom-skinned adjs.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxv. 120 Na man comme in my sight tome hand. 1629Z. Boyd Balme of Gilead 21 (Jam.) A man as we say that hath not harnes, or brain, a toome headed man. 1768Ross Helenore Introd. 4 Ye're nae toom handed gin your heart be free. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Toom-skin'd, hungry.
▪ IV. toom, v. Sc. and north. dial.
Forms: see prec.
[f. toom a., taking the place of the earlier teem v.2]
1. trans. To empty (a vessel, receptacle, etc.); esp. to empty by drinking, to drink off the contents of.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 64 Ay as thay tomit thame of schot, Ffeyndis fild thame new vp to the thrott With gold of allkin prent. 1580Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882) IV. 187 The inhabiteris..maist filthely castes furth and tomes thair closettis and pottis on the hie gaitt. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis Pref. 136 Concluding this, we toome a tass of wyne. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 106 They'll toom their banks before you reap their crap. 1896‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 71 Toom..yir mooth this meenut and say the twenty-third Psalm to the minister.
2. To empty out, discharge, pour out (water, the contents of a vessel, etc.).
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 630 This ilk Banquho, the quhilk the aill gart brew,..Amang the aill gart tume thame in the fat. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxvi, She..was like to hae toomed it a' out into the slap-basin. 1818― Hrt. Midl. xxviii, Our gawsie Scots pint..toomed doun the creature's throat wi' ane whorn. |