un·seam

(ŭn-sēm′)

tr.v. un·seamed, un·seam·ing, un·seams

To undo the seams of.

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Adj.	1.	unseamed - having no seams; "an unseamed garment made of plastic" seamless - not having or joined by a seam or seams; "seamless stockings"
	2.	unseamed - smooth, especially of skin; "his cheeks were unlined"; "his unseamed face" seamless, unlined smooth - having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror"

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He is described by the witches as "Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops and fixed his head upon our battlements".

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The sergeant goes on to tell how Macbeth, cutting through the field, arrived face to face with the rebel Macdonwald, "unseamed him from the nave to th'chops, / And fixed his head upon our battlements" (1.22-23).

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In Helkiah Crooke's Microcosvnographia (1615), the skin has equally important retaining and transmissive functions: it both "knitteth the whole body together" and is punctured throughout by large foramina or orifices and an infinite number of small pores: "It is an unseamed garment covering the whole bodie, yet hath it certaine breaches made by Nature for her ease and reliefe" (72).

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