Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.
A fragment of coral.
To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
To shed seeds (refers to plants
These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
A surname.
] From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, thro...
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simple past and past participle of see
Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."