leme /liːm/noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •(no longer used) A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.Thereby the incomprehensible majestie of God, as it were by a bright leme of a torch or candle, is declared to the blinde inhabitants of this world. — 1531 verb1 •(no longer used) To shine. formslemed · leming · lemes