Archaic or dialectal form of 'aim' or a variant spelling in Middle English texts.
Middle English spelling variant of 'aim' (from Old French 'esmer'), reflecting the flexible orthography of medieval English before standardized spelling.
Medieval spellings like 'ayme' remind us that Shakespeare and Chaucer's contemporaries spelled the same word multiple ways on the same page—standardized spelling is actually a modern luxury that only solidified after the printing press.
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