Crossword-Solution: ORMIN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

All the remains of the English tongue, in its transition state, are chiefly in verse; among them are the "Ormulum" (so called from the name of the author, Ormin), which is a metrical harmony of passages from the gospels contained in the service of the mass, and the long fable of "The Owl and the Nightingale," one of the most pleasing of these early relics.

She _thee’d_ and _tha’d_ her prospective daughter-in-law, and said: “I’m none as ormin’ as I look, seest ta.” Fanny did not think her prospective mother-in-law looked at all orming, so the speech was unnecessary.

This was the work of a monk named _Orm_ or _Ormin_, who lived in the beginning of the thirteenth century, during the reign of King John and Henry III., and it resembles our present English much more nearly than the poem of Layamon.

Orm or Ormin, who gives us his name, but of whom nothing else is known, has left in ten thousand long lines or twenty thousand short couplets a part only of a vast scheme of paraphrase and homiletic commentary on the Four Gospels (the "four-in-hand of Aminadab," as he calls them, taking up an earlier conceit), on the plan of taking a text for each day from its gospel in the calendar.

Apart from a few brief fragments, the first English writings after the Conquest are the _Brut_ of Layamon (about 1200), based on the _Brut_ of Wace; and the _Ormulum_, a collection of metrical homilies attributed to Orm or Ormin, an Augustine monk.