seam

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A line of junction formed by sewing together two pieces of material along their margins.
• noun A similar line, ridge, or groove made by fitting, joining, or lapping together two sections along their edges.
• noun A suture.
• noun A scar.
• noun A line across a surface, as a crack, fissure, or wrinkle.
• noun A thin layer or stratum, as of coal or rock.
• intransitive verb To put together with or as if with a seam.
• intransitive verb To mark with a groove, wrinkle, scar, or other seamlike line.
• intransitive verb To become fissured or furrowed; crack open.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover with grease; grease.
• noun Tallow; grease; lard.
• To join with a seam; unite by sewing.
• In knitting, to make an apparent seam in with a certain stitch: as, to seam a stocking.
• To mark with a seam, fissure, or furrow; scar: as, a face seamed with wounds.
• To crack; become fissured or cracked.
• In knitting, to work in a particular manner so as to produce a seam.
• noun A horse-load; a load for a pack-horse; specifically, eight bushels of grain or malt.
• noun Same as slit-band.
• noun A joint used in sheet-metal work where two plates are joined by turning over the edge of the plate and hooking this turned edge into the similarly flexed edge of the next.
• noun The line formed by joining two edges; especially, the joining line formed by sewing or stitching together two different pieces of cloth, leather, or the like, or two edges of the same piece; a line of union.
• noun A piece of plain sewing; that on which sewing is being or is to be done; sewing.
• noun A line of separation, as between two strata, or two planks or the like when fastened together; also, the fissure or gap formed by the imperfect union of two bodies laid or fastened together: as, to calk the seams of a ship.
• noun A fissure; a cleft; a groove.
• noun The ridge in a casting which marks the place where two parts of the mold have been in contact, as in a plaster east or a molded piece of earthenware.
• noun A cicatrix or scar.
• noun A bed or stratum: so used especially in speaking of coal: as, a seam of coal (a bed or continuous layer of coal).
• noun plural See the quotation.
• noun In anatomy, a suture; a raphe.
• noun In sail-making, a seam run in the middle of a cloth longitudinally, by overlaying a fold of the canvas on itself, so as to give the appearance of a regular seam as between two separate cloths. This is done for appearance in yacht-sails, and to make the sail stand flatter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun engraving, engraving The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
• noun engraving The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
• transitive verb To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
• transitive verb To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
• transitive verb 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.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. Grease; tallow; lard.
• intransitive verb To become ridgy; to crack open.
• noun The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
• noun 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.
• noun (Geol. & Mining) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata.
• noun A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
• noun a blast made by putting the powder into seams or cracks of rocks.
• noun a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace.
• noun (Agric.) A tailor's sadiron for pressing seams.
• noun a set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun sewing A folded back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
• noun A suture.
• noun A thin stratum, especially of coal or mineral.
• noun cricket The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
• noun An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.