enseam

present singular third person enseams · participle present enseaming · participle past enseamed · past enseamed

1. obsoleteTo remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.

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

   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

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   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, […]

   1619, Edmund Bert, An approued treatise of hawkes and hawking, book 3, page 102

2. obsoleteTo sew or stitch up in a covering