erron. f. TERM sb. (sense 15): see quot.
1727–41. Chambers, Cycl., Terms, Termes, Termini.… Some write the word thermes, from hermes, a name the Greeks gave the god Mercury; whose statue … was placed in several of the cross-ways.
1811. W. Cooke, Thames, Sign. 39, lf. 3. The first object is the bust of Flora, on a therm.
1846. Worcester, Therm..., a pedestal increasing upwards for the reception of a bust.
