n. [ AS. reám, akin to G. rahm. ] Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cream; to mantle. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Reim. ] To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. reme, OF. rayme, F. rame (cf. Sp. resma), fr. Ar. rizma a bundle, especially of paper. ] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. [ 1913 Webster ]

Printer's ream, twenty-one and a half quires. [ Eng. ] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reamed p. pr. & vb. n. Reaming. ] [ Cf. G. räumen to remove, to clear away, fr. raum room. See Room. ] To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Realm. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Surg.) The second of two amputations performed upon the same member. [ 1913 Webster ]