Also 7–8 inseam. [f. EN-1 + SEAM sb. and v.]
† 1. trans. To sew or stitch up in. Obs.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1636), 35. A jewel … which one stale away and enseamed it in his thigh. Ibid. (1657), 66. Jupiter halted when Bacchus was enseamed in his thigh.
2. To mark as with a seam. Cf. SEAM v.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., 4 Plays in One, Triumph of Death, vi. Take him dead-drunk now, without repentance, His lechery inseam’d upon him.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIX. 544. Deep o’er his knee inseam’d, remain’d the scar.
1856. T. Aird, Poet. Wks., 79. Gray men enseamed with many a scar.
