SEAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seamed mean? 

• SEAMED (adjective)
  The adjective SEAMED has 2 senses:

1. having or joined by a seam or seams

2. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams

  Familiarity information: SEAMED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or joined by a seam or seams

Similar:

seamy (showing a seam)

sewed; sewn; stitched (fastened with stitches)

Antonym:

seamless (not having or joined by a seam or seams)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams

Synonyms:

lined; seamed

Context example:

a seamed face

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

 Context examples 

Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the repulsive sneer to the face!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You say sooth,” said Johnston, turning his seamed and grizzled face upon the man-at-arms.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The heavy, white face was seamed with lines of trouble, the hanging pouches under the closed eyes were leaden in colour, the loose mouth drooped dolorously at the corners, the rolling chins were unshaven.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huge body, the craggy and deeply seamed face with the fierce eyes and hawk-like nose, the grizzled hair which nearly brushed our cottage ceiling, the beard—golden at the fringes and white near the lips, save for the nicotine stain from his perpetual cigar—all these were as well known in London as in Africa, and could only be associated with the tremendous personality of Dr. Leon Sterndale, the great lion-hunter and explorer.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)