▪ I. † enˈseam, n. Obs.
In 5 ensayme.
[? f. next vb.]
That which is enseamed or cleansed away; superfluous fat; scourings.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans B j a, Ensayme of an hawke is the grece. |
▪ II. † enˈseam, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 5 enceym, 5–7 ensayme, -seame, (7 ensaim, -sayn), 6– enseam; also 7–8 inseame.
[ad. OF. *ensaime-r (cf. ensemer in Cotgr.), altered form of essaimer (mod. esseimer, essimer), f. es-, L. ex- + OF. (*saim), saïn grease (mod. sain-doux lard):—med.L. sagīmen stuffing. Cf. seam n. grease, lard.]
1. trans. To cleanse (a hawk, later also a horse) of superfluous fat.
| c 1450 Bk. Hawkyng in Rel. Ant. I. 308 Withdrawe his mete in the mewe sevennyghe and wasch it eche tyme, and sumtyme with vinegre til he be enceymyd. 1486 Bk. St. Albans B j a, It is tyme for to fede hir with wash mete and to begynne to ensayme hire. a 1528 Skelton Ware Hawke 78 She was not clene ensaymed. 1575 Turberv. Falconrie in Edin. Rev. (1872) Oct. 356 How you shall enseame a hawke, or give her castings and scourings. 1598 Florio, Alenare, to enseame a horse. 1611 Cotgr., Ensemer, to inseam; unfatten. 1614 Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 55 Till you have enseamed him [your hunting horse], hardned his flesh, taken away his inward grease. 1639 T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 340 If you bee in the way of ensayning your horse. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 69 Twenty days before we enseam a falcon. |
¶ b. (See quot.: perh. only a misapprehension.)
| 1611 Cotgr., Affener, to feed or inseame with hay; to stall-feed. |
2. intr. for refl. of the hawk: To become clear of superfluous fat, etc.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans B iij a, As she ensaymeth hir fete will wax yolow and smothe. 1615 Latham Falconry (1633) 62 Reasonable time..that she may inseame inwardly, and outwardly together. |
Hence enˈseaming vbl. n.
| c 1575 Perfect Bk. Sparhawkes (1886) 15 Ensayming is to take her gresynes and foulnes awaye. 1615 Latham Falconry (1633) 45 No one of the other sort of hawks is in a quarter of that danger in their inseaming that she is in. |
▪ III. † enˈseam, v.2 Obs.
[ad. Fr. enseimer (now ensimer); OFr. ensaimer, f. en- (see en-1) + OF. *saim, saïn: see enseam v.1]
trans. To load with grease. Hence enˈseamed ppl. a. fig.
The Fr. word is now used only in sense ‘to grease (cloth)’, whence perh. the fig. use in Shakes.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 57 Hee is not enseamed with much fatnesse, but is all of muscles and senues. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 92 In the ranke sweat of an enseamed bed. |
▪ IV. enseam, v.3
(ɛnˈsiːm)
Also 7–8 inseam.
[f. en-1 + seam n. and v.]
† 1. trans. To sew or stitch up in. Obs.
| 1605 Camden Rem. (1636) 35 A jewel..which one stale away and enseamed it in his thigh. Ibid. (1657) 66 Jupiter halted when Bacchus was enseamed in his thigh. |
2. To mark as with a seam. Cf. seam v.
| 1611 Beaum. & Fl. 4 Plays in One, Triumph of Death vi, Take him dead-drunk now, without repentance, His lechery inseam'd upon him. 1725 Pope Odyss. xix. 544 Deep o'er his knee inseam'd, remain'd the scar. 1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. 79 Gray men enseamed with many a scar. |
▪ V. † enˈseam, v.4 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure etymology: cf. ME. in same, inseme together; also ON. semja to put together.]
trans. ? To bring together. a. To include or contain together. b. To introduce to company.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. xi. 35 And bounteous Trent, that in him selfe enseames Both thirty sorts of fish, and thirty sundry streames. 1607 Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 16 Beaupres, come I'le enseame thee: Ladies..I haue heere a friend that I would gladlie enter in your graces. |