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  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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