enseam

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English

Etymology

From en- +‎ seam.

Verb

enseam (third-person singular simple present enseams, present participle enseaming, simple past and past participle enseamed)

(obsolete) To remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 79–83:
  She was not clene ensaymed,
  She was not wel reclaymed;
  But the fawconer unfayned
  Was moch more febler brayned.
- 1619, Edmund Bert, An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking‎, book 3, page 102:
  If you shall giue her this water with her meate, you shall finde admirable profit therein: It is very good wherewith to ensayme a hawke of any kinde, for a long-winged hawke that is in summer flowne to the field, there neuer was or can be vsed any thing better,
(obsolete) To sew or stitch up in a covering

References

John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “enseam”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
QI Annual 2007

Anagrams

Seeman, namees, meeans, ameens, Sameen, Emesan, Naeems, seamen, Neesam, mensae, Ameens, meanes, enemas

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