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1. A reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from haemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood
   - protohemin

1. Surround in a restrictive manner
   "The building was hemmed in by flowers"
    
2. Encircle as a military tactic
   "The Turks hemmed in Vienna";
   - besiege, beleaguer, surround, circumvent, siege

Derived forms: hemming in, hemins, hemmed in, hems in

Type of: assail, attack, border, chloride, environ, ring, skirt, surround

Encyclopedia: Hemin