• Grease; tallow; lard. • The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather. • 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. • A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal. • A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix. • To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite. • To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar. • 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. • To become ridgy; to crack open. • A denomination of weight or measure. • The quantity of eight bushels of grain. • The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.