Seam

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Grease; tallow; lard.

II. Seam ·vi To become ridgy; to crack open.

III. Seam ·noun The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.

IV. Seam ·noun A denomination of weight or measure.

V. Seam ·noun The quantity of eight bushels of grain.

VI. Seam ·noun A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.

VII. Seam ·noun The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

VIII. Seam ·noun A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.

IX. Seam ·vt To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to Unite.

X. Seam ·vt To mark with something resembling a seam; to Line; to Scar.

XI. Seam ·vt 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.

XII. Seam ·noun 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.

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