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seedier |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seedy \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 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 lamin[ae] and the wall of the hoof.
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