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Definition:1. To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain.2. To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The rich men have garments of glass, very soft and delicate: the poorer sort of brass woven, whereof they have great plenty, which they enseam with water to make it fit for the workman, as we do our wool.
A. H. Bullen. Lucian's True History (1902)
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In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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