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To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

draw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak.

ation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam. [Written also raphe.] Gray.

Intercalated with slate; -- said of a seam of coal. Raymond.

A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.

he joint. -- Chain riveting, riveting in which the rivets, in two or more rows along the seam, are set one behind the other. -- Crossed riveting, riveting in which the rivets in one row are set opposite the spaces between the rivets in the next row. -- Double riveting, in lap riveting, two rows of rivets along the s…

Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.

To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

tands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.

A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.

A seamster. [Obs.]

A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.

Seamstressy.

A seamster. [Obs.]

nts of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc. Many . . . who had before been great commanders, but now served as private gentlemen without pay. Knolles.

A seamstress. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A seamstress. [Obs.] Caxton.