hem

intj

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

   “"Hem! hem! however there will be a by-place for me behind the stove."”

noun

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.

   “his morning hems”

2. The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
3. A rim or margin of something.

   “Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea”

4. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

verb

1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.

   “Hem, and stroke thy beard.”

   ““Sit down,” said the young man, gruffly. “He’ll be in soon.” I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.”

2. (intransitive)To make a hem.
3. (transitive)To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
4. (transitive)To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.

   “A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.”

pron

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of 'em.

   “And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.”

   “For eyther of hem mayntened.”

   “‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.”

   “Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.”

   “Except we make hem such.”

name

1. A surname.