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Lyam

Lyam \Ly"am\, n. [See Leam.] A leash. [Obs.]

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lyam

n. (context obsolete English) A leash.

Usage examples of "lyam".

Arutha, Fannon, and Lyam rode before soldiers protecting the wagons traveling between the castle and the shore.

She showed him also the house that had once been a hotel, now vacant and deteriorating rapidly, in the attic of which he found, among the detritus of yesteryears, a letter once written by Daniel Lyam Montross to the woman who had been the last occupant of the hotel.

Weve had three sizeable border skirmishes between barons in the East - not anything to have Lyam send out his own army, but enough to make everyone east of Malacs Cross nervous.

Most Imperial Majesty, Ichindar, ninety-one times Emperor, Light of Heaven, and ruler of all the nations of Tsuranuanni, sends greetings to his brother monarch, His Most Royal Highness, Prince Lyam, ruler of the lands known as the Kingdom.

Lyam stood flanked by his brothers, one to each side, and the hall erupted into shouts and cheers.

Gardan and his soldiers had left that morning with a bundle of dispatches for Prince Lyam from his father, and Meecham was housed with the palace guard.

At the far end of the huge chamber he found Lyam sitting next to the catafalque that supported his father's stone coffin.

Lyam examined them, pronounced them useless for scribing, and added that nothing had changed much in the art of brushmaking over the centuries.

Karal and Lyam scribbled on identical sheets of foolscap, seated side by side on a pallet bed, both of them taking full notes of this meeting.

He says, His Most Imperial Majesty, Ichindar, ninety-one times Emperor, Light of Heaven, and ruler of all the nations of Tsuranuanni, sends greetings to his brother monarch, His most Royal Highness, Prince Lyam, ruler of the lands known as the Kingdom.

Vandros quickly presented his party, and Lyam said, Unless that pirate the King of Queg is going to arrive in a war galley pulled by a thousand little sea horses, we shall retire.

Jehan had singled out Lyam for his own target, and was proving to be no mean adversary.