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re sovereign power is exercised. [Obs.] Chaucer. Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser.

A full-grown male fur seal. [Alaska]

d ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.

A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

A capsule.

A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway. Tusser.

A seedlip. [Prov. Eng.]

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion. [Colloq.] G. Eliot. What is called seedness, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged. J. S. Blackie.

Without seed or seeds.

A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]

Seedsman.

Seedtime. [Obs.] Shak.

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

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. Gen. viii. 22.

Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.

t (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young. Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me Gen. xxvi. 27.

in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou And he said, I seek my brethren. Gen. xxxvii. 15,16.

A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.