| seedsman | 1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. "The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain." (Shak) 2. A person who deals in seeds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| seedtime | The season proper for sowing. "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease." Origin: AS. Sdima. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| seedy | 1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. 2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of FRench brandy. 3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. "Little Flanigan here . . . Is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law." Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof. See:dier; Seediest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| seedy toe | A condition of the hoof wall in the toe region of horses, characterised by loss of substance and change in character of the horn, most often as a sequela of mild chronic laminitis. Synonym: dystrophia ungulae, hollow wall. (05 Mar 2000) |