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