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  1. 1. superl. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds. Source: opted
  2. 2. superl. Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy. Source: opted
  3. 3. superl. Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. full of seeds Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. shabby and untidy Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness Source: wordnet
  7. 7. adj. morally degraded Source: wordnet
  8. 8. 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; shabily 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 laminæ and the wall of the hoof. Source: webster

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