enseam

From en- +‎ seam.

enseam (third-person singular simple present enseams, present participle enseaming, simple past and past participle enseamed)

1. (obsolete) To remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.
   • 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:

     She was not clene ensaymed,
     She was not wel reclaymed;
     But the fawconer unfayned
     Was moch more febler brayned.

   • 1619, Edmund Bert, An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking‎^[1], book 3, page 102:

     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, […]

2. (obsolete) To sew or stitch up in a covering

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• QI Annual 2007

• Seeman, namees, meeans, ameens, Sameen, Emesan, Naeems, seamen, Neesam, mensae, Ameens, meanes, enemas