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; shabily 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 laminae and the wall of the hoof.

 

© Webster 1913.

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