seeds |
The encapsulated embryos of flowering plants. They are used as is or for animal feed because of the high content of concentrated nutrients like starches, proteins, and fats. Rapeseed, cottonseed, and sunflower seed are also produced for the oils (fats) they yield. (12 Dec 1998) |
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seedsman |
1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. "The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain." (Shak) 2. A person who deals in seeds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seedtime |
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." Origin: AS. Sdima. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seedy |
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. "Little Flanigan here . . . Is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law." Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminae and the wall of the hoof. See:dier; Seediest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seedy toe |
A condition of the hoof wall in the toe region of horses, characterised by loss of substance and change in character of the horn, most often as a sequela of mild chronic laminitis. Synonym: dystrophia ungulae, hollow wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
seek-no-further |
A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; formerly called go-no-further. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seeker |
1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching. 2. One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. "A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers." (Bullokar) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seel |
1. <veterinary> To close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head. "Fools climbs to fall: fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling." (J. Reading) 2. Hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind. "Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day." (Shak) "Gold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel." (Chapman) See:led; Seeling] [F.siller, ciller, fr. Cil an eyelash, L. Cilium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Seeligmuller's sign |
<clinical sign> Contraction of the pupil on the affected side in facial neuralgia. (05 Mar 2000) |
Seeligmuller, Otto |
<person> German neurologist, 1837-1912. See: Seeligmuller's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
seemingly |
In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. "This the father seemingly complied with." (Addison) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seemly |
Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous. "He had a seemly nose." (Chaucer) "I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons." (Shak) "Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies." (Hooker) Synonym: Becoming, fit, suitable, proper, appropriate, congruous, meet, decent, decorous. See:mlier; Seeliest] [Icel. Smiligr, fr. Smr becoming, fit; akin to samr same, E. Same; the sense being properly, the same or like, hence, fitting. See Seem. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seer program |
A cancer registry mandated under the national cancer act of 1971 to operate and maintain a population-based cancer reporting system, reporting periodically estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in the united states. The surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (seer) program is a continuing project of the national cancer institute of the national institutes of health. Among its goals, in addition to assembling and reporting cancer statistics, are the monitoring of annual cancer incident trends and the promoting of studies designed to identify factors amenable to cancer control interventions. (12 Dec 1998) |
seeress |
A female seer; a prophetess. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
seerfish |
<zoology> A scombroid food fish of Maderia (Cybium Commersonii). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |