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Seedy toe

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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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