SUTURE

I. noun see: sew Date: 15th century 1. a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body, the act or process of sewing with ~s, 2. a uniting of parts, the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united, 3. the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull), a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts, sutural adjective suturally adverb II. transitive verb (~d; suturing) Date: 1777 to unite, close, or secure with ~s