Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nim \Nim\, v. t. [imp. {Nam}or {Nimmed}; p. p. {Nomen}or
   {Nome}.] [AS. niman. [root] 7. Cf. {Nimble}.]
   To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]

         This canon it in his hand nam.           --Chaucer.

Nome \Nome\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to deal out, distribute.]
   1. A province or political division, as of modern Greece or
      ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

   2. Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]

Nome \Nome\, n. [Cf. {Binomial}.] (Alg.) [Obs.]
   See {Term}.

Nome \Nome\, Nomen \No"men\, obs.
   p. p. of {Nim}. --Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

Nome
     n : a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward
         Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at
         the beginning of the 20th century