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To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. "Band and gusset and seam." Hood.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

A house of worship for seamen.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams with melted pitch.

ying, as a drawing. Calking iron, a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc. Their left hand does the calking iron guide. Dryden.

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

lloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. Shak.

land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.

To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly. Chinsing iron, a light calking iron.

A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

The book of Job, in conduct and diction. Macaulay. Conduct money (Naut.), a portion of a seaman's wages retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen. Consul general, a consul of the first rank, stationed in an important place, or having jurisdiction in several places or over several consula. -- Vice consul, a consular officer holding the place of a consul during the co…

the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

cinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.

The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.