Seed"time` (?), n. [AS. sdtma.] The season proper for sowing.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat,
and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Gen. viii. 22.
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; a 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 laminæ and the wall of the hoof.
See"ing (?), conj. (but originally a present participle). In view of
the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as;
since; because; - - followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well,
seeing that he was so young.
Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me?
Gen. xxvi. 27.
Seek (?), a. Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Seek, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] [OE.
seken, AS. scan, scean; akin to OS. skian, LG. söken, D. zoeken, OHG.
suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. sækja, Sw. söka, Dan. söge, Goth. skjan, and
E. sake. Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.] 1. To go in
search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
The man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek
my brethren.
Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.