rare. Also 7 cowm. [f. COOM sb.1 Cf. becoom, ME. bicolmen (s.v. BE- 6 a).]

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  1.  trans. To begrime or smut as with soot.

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1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Burial (1833), 35. The colȝear, by cowming the walkers whyte webs, did weary him away.

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1823.  Galt, Entail, III. ii. 40. I’ll no coom my fingers wi’ meddling in ony sic project.

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  † 2.  (See quot.) Obs.

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1664.  Evelyn, Sylva, 103. Small-coals are made of the spray and brush-wood … which is sometimes bound up into Bavins for this use; though also it be as frequently charked without binding, and then they call it cooming it together.

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