1 SEIMR
m. [síma], a wire or string; draga seiminn, to drawl out one’s words, i. e. talk with a canting voice.
2 SEIMR
II. riches; en hvorki gull né seim, Pass. 36. 5; bjartan seim, Fb. ii. 523 (in a verse); rautt gull er s., Þjal.; seims ok hnossa, Edda (Ht.); seima-þollr, seim-skerðir, seima-slöngvir, seim-brjótr, seim-örr, seim-stafr, seim-týnir, seim-þverrir, etc. are epithets of a lordly man, lavish of gold, Lex. Poët.
3 SEIMR
III. a honeycomb, prop. ‘honey-texture’ (cp. Germ. wabe from weben = to weave); hón rétti fram höndina ok tók upp seiminn, Stj. 210; sætari en hunang eða s., Bs. i. 103; sætligan seim, 240; hunanglegr s., Th. 77; hunangs-s., q. v.