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ˈbairn-team north. dial.
Forms: 1 bearn- 3 bern-, barn-team, -tem, beren-tem, 4 barn-, barne-teem, 4–5 barn(e-tem(e, 4–6 -tyme, 5 -teame, 7 bairn-teme, 8 -time, 9 -teem; see also barm-team.
[f. bairn + team.]
Brood of children, offspring, family; posterity.
c885K. ælfred Oros. i. xiv. 1 Fultumlease æt hiora bearn⁓teamum. c1220Hali Meid. 31 In breades wone brede ti barnteam. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3747 Chore was is bernteam. c1300Cursor M. 4828 We ar all a man barnteme [Fairf. MS. an monnes barneteme]. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 57 Þe firste of þis foule barnetyme. c1460Towneley Myst. 212 Wepe nothyng for me Bot for ȝoure self and ȝoure barneteme. 1513Douglas æneis XII. xiii. 134 Bair at a birth..that barntyme miserabill. 1637Rutherford Lett. 105 (1862) I. 266 The fair flock and blessed bairn-teme of the first-born. 1786Burns A Dream xi, Thae bonnie bairntime, Heav'n has lent. 1855Whitby Gloss., Bairn-teems, troops of children. |