noun grease; tallow; lard.
2. seam ·vi to become ridgy; to crack open.
3. seam ·noun the quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
4. seam ·noun a denomination of weight or measure.
5. seam ·noun the quantity of eight bushels of grain.
6. seam ·noun a line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
7. seam ·noun the fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
8. seam ·noun a thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
9. seam ·vt to form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
10. seam ·vt to mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
11. seam ·vt to make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
12. seam ·noun hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, ·etc.