Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Seedier"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
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; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy coat. [Colloq.]

Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.

{Seedy toe}, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a
cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the
lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.


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