Of mortal seed they were not held.
Waller.
Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water
down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and
filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space
between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Seed bud (Bot.), the
germ or rudiment of the plant in the embryo state; the ovule. -- Seed
coat (Bot.), the covering of a seed. -- Seed corn, or Seed grain
(Bot.), corn or grain for seed. -- Seed down (Bot.), the soft hairs on
certain seeds, as cotton seed. -- Seed drill. See 6th Drill, 2 (a). --
Seed eater (Zoöl.), any finch of the genera Sporophila, and Crithagra.
They feed mainly on seeds. -- Seed gall (Zoöl.), any gall which
resembles a seed, formed on the leaves of various plants, usually by
some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. -- Seed
lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from
the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of
a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. -- Seed pearl, a
small pearl of little value. -- Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on
which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery.
-- Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. -- Seed
tick (Zoöl.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form
and color. -- Seed vessel (Bot.), that part of a plant which contains
the seeds; a pericarp. -- Seed weevil (Zoöl.), any one of numerous
small weevils, especially those of the genus Apion, which live in the
seeds of various plants. -- Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of
its seeds. [Southern U.S.]
Seed (?), v. i. 1. To sow seed.