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Seam n. Grease; tallow; lard. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

Seam n.

1.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

2.

Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc. "Precepts should be so finely wrought together... that no coarse seam may discover where they join."

3.

(Geol. & Mining) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

4.

A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

Seam blast, a blast made by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks.

Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; called also seaming lace.

Seam presser. (Agric.)

(a)

A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows.

(b)

A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams.

Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.

Seam n. A denomination of weight or measure. Specifically:

(a)

The quantity of eight bushels of grain. "A seam of oats."

(b)

The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. (Eng.)

verb

Seam v. t. (past & past part. seamed; pres. part. seaming)

1.

To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

2.

To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. "Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave."

3.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

Seam v. i. To become ridgy; to crack open. "Later their lips began to parch and seam."

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"Seam" Quotes from Famous Books

... he wore underneath it, which was stained even more deeply. When she sought to roll up the sleeve of his flannel shirt it would not go up high enough, but the remedy was close at hand, in the form of a pair of scissors, and she swiftly ripped up a seam. On the outer part of the shoulder she revealed a rather large and jagged wound that was all smeared with blood, which ...

— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick

... and if any festivals belonging to our nation, which we celebrate every year, happened. When he officiated, he had on a pair of breeches that reached beneath his privy parts to his thighs, and had on an inner garment of linen, together with a blue garment, round, without seam, with fringe work, and reaching to the feet. There were also golden bells that hung upon the fringes, and pomegranates intermixed among them. The bells signified thunder, and the pomegranates lightning. But that girdle that tied the garment to the breast was embroidered ...

— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus

... evidently long closed. Even then I would not have noticed it, had not my ears caught the sound of a voice—two voices, in fact—low, gurgling voices—as if a fountain had just been turned on, spattering the leaves about it. Then my eye lighted, not only on the gate, but upon a seam or split in the wood, half-way up its height, showing where a panel was sometimes pushed back, perhaps for surer identification, before the inside ...

— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith

... at times, when I grow crouse, I gie their wames a random pouse, Is that enough for you to souse Your servant sae? Gae mind your seam, ye ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... say which we found most diverting, the long, long landscape that divided as we passed, through it and closed up in the rear, leaving only the shining iron seam down the middle; the beautiful, undulating prairie land; the hot and dusty desolation of the plains; the delicious temperature of the highlands, as we approached the Rockies and had our first glimpse of Pike's Peak in its mantle ...

— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard

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