Hem \Hem\, interj.
   An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation,
   doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud
   or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm.
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         Cough or cry hem, if anybody come.       --Shak.
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	Hem \Hem\ (h[e^]m), pron. [OE., fr. AS. him, heom, dative pl.
   of. h[=e] he. See He, They.]
   Them [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Hem \Hem\, n.
   An utterance or sound of the voice, hem or hm, often
   indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call
   attention. "His morning hems." --Spectator.
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	Hem \Hem\, v. i. [[root]15. See Hem, interj.]
   To make the sound expressed by the word hem; hence, to
   hesitate in speaking. "Hem, and stroke thy beard." --Shak.
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	Hem \Hem\, n. [AS. hem, border, margin; cf. Fries. h[aum]mel,
   Prov. G. hammel hem of mire or dirt.]
   1. The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and
      sewed, to strengthen it and prevent raveling.
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   2. Border; edge; margin. "Hem of the sea." --Shak.
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   3. A border made on sheet-metal ware by doubling over the
      edge of the sheet, to stiffen it and remove the sharp
      edge.
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	Hem \Hem\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hemmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Hemming.]
   1. To form a hem or border to; to fold and sew down the edge
      of. --Wordsworth.
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   2. To border; to edge
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            All the skirt about
            Was hemmed with golden fringe.        --Spenser.
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   To hem about, To hem around, or To hem in, to inclose
      and confine; to surround; to environ. "With valiant
      squadrons round about to hem." --Fairfax. "Hemmed in to be
      a spoil to tyranny." --Daniel.

   To hem out, to shut out. "You can not hem me out of
      London." --J. Webster.
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	hem
     n : lap that forms a cloth border doubled back and stitched down
     v 1: fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my
          skirt"
     2: utter `hem' or `ahem'
     [also: hemming, hemmed]

	

	117 Moby Thesaurus words for "hem":
   adjoin, bank, bar, beading, befringe, begird, beset, bind, binding,
   board, border, bordering, bordure, bound, box, box in, box up,
   brim, brink, brow, bulkhead in, cage, circle, circumscribe,
   close in, coast, confine, corral, cramp, define, edge, edging,
   encircle, encompass, enframe, envelop, falter, featheredge, fence,
   fimbria, fimbriation, flange, flounce, frame, frill, frilling,
   fringe, furbelow, galloon, gird, girdle, halt, haw, hedge,
   hem and haw, hem in, hesitate, hum, hum and haw, immure,
   keep from spreading, keep within bounds, labellum, labium, labrum,
   lap, ledge, limb, limbus, limit, line, lip, list, localize, mammer,
   march, marge, margin, marginate, motif, narrow, pale, palisade,
   pen, perimeter, periphery, picket, purfle, purl, qualify,
   ragged edge, rail, restrict, rim, ring, round, ruffle, selvage,
   set off, shore, shut, side, sideline, skirt, skirting, stammer,
   stint, stumble, stutter, surround, tighten, trim, trimming,
   valance, verge, wall, welt

	

	Hem
   of a garment, the fringe of a garment. The Jews attached much
   importance to these, because of the regulations in Num. 15:38,
   39. These borders or fringes were in process of time enlarged so
   as to attract special notice (Matt. 23:5). The hem of Christ's
   garment touched (9:20; 14:36; Luke 8:44).

	

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