Sc. Obs. In 6 wam(me, vam. [App. repr. OE. wam(m, wǫm(m, masc. and neut., spot, blemish (chiefly fig.) = OFris., OS., OHG. wamm, ON. vamm, Goth. wamm. But cf. WAN sb.1] A scar. Cf. WER sb.
Beowulf, 3073. Wommum ʓewitnad.
a. 1000. Kentish Gl., in Wr.-Wülcker, 64. Maculam, wam.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 570 (Tullibardine MS.). His peild pallat The fowsome flokis of flaeis dois overflow With vamis [MS. Harl. wames; ed. 1639 wams] and wondis.
1595. Duncan, App. Etymol. (E.D.S.), Cicatrix, a wamme.
