enseam
verbEtymology From en- + seam.
1
Obsolete To remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.
- She was not clene ensaymed, She was not wel reclaymed; But the fawconer unfayned Was moch more febler brayned.c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 79–83:
- If you shall giue her this water with her meate, you shall finde admirable profit therein: It is very good wherewith to ensayme a hawke of any kinde, for a long-winged hawke that is in summer flowne to the field, there neuer was or can be vsed any thing better, […]1619, Edmund Bert, An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking, book 3, page 102:
2
Obsolete To sew or stitch up in a covering