What is "maihem"

Maim \Maim\, n. [Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.] [OF. mehaing. See Maim, v.]

1. The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

   Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.
   --Hooker.

   A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
   --Hayward.

n. (context obsolete used chiefly before 1900 English) (alternative form of mayhem nodot=1 English), in the sense of maiming or causing bodily harm.