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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
seamed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had carefully groomed silver hair and skin like seamed leather.
▪ She seated herself opposite Hargreave and crossed her legs in a slither of seamed nylon.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seamed

Seam \Seam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Seaming.]

  1. To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.

  2. To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.

    Seamed o'er with wounds which his own saber gave.
    --Pope.

  3. 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.

Seamed

Seamed \Seamed\, a. (Falconry) Out of condition; not in good condition; -- said of a hawk.

Wiktionary
seamed
  1. (context falconry of a hawk English) Out of condition; not in good condition. v

  2. (en-past of: seam)

WordNet
seamed
  1. adj. having or joined by a seam or seams [ant: seamless]

  2. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face" [syn: lined]

Usage examples of "seamed".

But she was barefoot, and white scars seamed her ribs, licking down between breast and second nipple, familiar on the dark skin.

Right at the point where it had devoured half of the building it was Seamed to.

The quick aging of Kolnar had seamed and scored it, until the starved hunger of the soul within showed through the flesh.

His body was matte-black except where the dusty gray of scars seamed it, a gaunt thing of massive bones and muscles shrunken and knotted and still powerful enough to crack teak beams.

His face was narrow with a hawk nose and a seamed, beardless face, and his dark hair was mostly captured in an odd, stockinglike cap.

Stone wordlessly for long moments, not attempting more, his narrow, seamed face reflecting wonder and hesitation.

A sad smile eased across the wrinkled features, seamed wood splitting with age.

Lieutenant Tewsley was there, hat held informally in his hand and his seamed face somber.

Over to the north Ryan had heard the distant rumble of thunder and seen the rich purple sky seamed with the silver lace of lightning.

A long scar seamed down his face, from the corner of the right eye to the upper lip.

Ryan could see, by switching the scope to high-mag, that the land was seamed with a maze of narrow draws and arroyos.

His eyes were a pale gray in the deeply seamed and creased angles of his face, and bristle-brush gray hair stood up from his high forehead.