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Seamed

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seam  (sm)
n.
1.
a. A line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces of material along their margins.
b. A similar line, ridge, or groove made by fitting, joining, or lapping together two sections along their edges.
c. A suture.
d. A scar.
2. A line across a surface, as a crack, fissure, or wrinkle.
3. A thin layer or stratum, as of coal or rock.
v. seamed, seam·ing, seams
v.tr.
1. To put together with or as if with a seam.
2. To mark with a groove, wrinkle, scar, or other seamlike line.
3. To form ridges in by purling.
v.intr.
1. To become fissured or furrowed; crack open.
2. To purl.

[Middle English seme, from Old English sam; see sy- in Indo-European roots.]

seamer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.seamed - having or joined by a seam or seams
seamless - not having or joined by a seam or seams; "seamless stockings"
2.seamed - (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"


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It was seamed and furrowed; he could trace the lines with the tips of his fingers.
They gained the summit only to find themselves on another ravine, and now perceived that this vast mountain, which had presented such a sloping and even side to the distant beholder on the plain, was shagged by frightful precipices, and seamed with longitudinal chasms, deep and dangerous.
I detest such creatures; and it would be much better for them that their faces had been seamed with the smallpox; but I must confess, I never saw any of this wanton behaviour in poor Jenny: some artful villain, I am convinced, hath betrayed, nay perhaps forced her; and I pity the poor wretch with all my heart.
 
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