Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SEAMING
Verb
seaming
present participle of seam
Noun
seaming (plural seamings)
The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
(fishing) The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached.
Anagrams
• amesing, enigmas, gamines, imagens
Source: Wiktionary
Seam"ing, n.
1. The act or process of forming a seam or joint.
2. (Fishing)
Definition: The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.
SEAM
Seam, n. Etym: [See Saim.]
Definition: Grease; tallow; lard. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] Shak. Dryden.
Seam, n. Etym: [OE. seem, seam, AS. seám; akin to D. zoom, OHG. soum, G. saum, LG. soom, Icel. saumr, Sw. & Dan. söm, and E. sew. sq. root 156. See Sew to fasten with thread.]
1. The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
2. 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. Precepts should be so finely wrought together . . . that no coarse seam may discover where they join. Addison.
3. (geol. & Mining)
Definition: A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
4. A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. Seam blast, a blast by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks.
– Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace.
– Seam presser. (Agric.) (a) A heavy roller to press down newly plowed furrows. (b) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams. Knight.
– Seam set, a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.
Seam, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Seaming.]
1. To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
2. To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. Seamed o'Pope.
3. 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.
Seam, v. i.
Definition: To become ridgy; to crack open. Later their lips began to parch and seam. L. Wallace.
Seam, n. Etym: [AS. seám, LL. sauma, L. sagma a packsaddle, fr. Gr. Sumpter.]
Definition: A denomination of weight or measure. Specifically: (a) The quantity of eight bushels of grain. "A seam of oats." P. Plowman. (b) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass. [Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CUNT
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