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enseam en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English seam English enseam From en- + seam.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.
   • She was not clene ensaymed, She was not wel reclaymed; But the fawconer unfayned Was moch more febler brayned. 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:
   • 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, […] 1619, Edmund Bert, An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking, book 3, page 102:
2. (obsolete) To sew or stitch up in a covering

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