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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Seedy \Seed"y\, a. [Compar. {Seedier}; superl. {Seediest}.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
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2. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the
weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of
French brandy.
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3. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and
miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as,
he looked seedy; a seedy coat. [Colloq.]
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Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we
say among us that practice the law. --Goldsmith.
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{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.
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