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Definition of Seedness
1. n. Seedtime.
Definition of Seedness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being seed. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) seedtime ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seedness
1. sowing [n -ES] - See also: sowing
Medical Definition of Seedness
1. 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)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seedness
Literary usage of Seedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shropshire Notes and Queries (1886)
"Itm. in je Mill field :i ridges of two strikes seedness the lords lands in ye
... Itm. in ye said field 2 Ridges of в strikes seedness several neighbours ..."
2. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its by Powys-land Club (1894)
"Item a piece of land in " Maes y groes" of three measures seedness, adjoining
south east to the high road, north east and north west to Mr. Clopton ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Agricultural Tenancies: With Forms and by George Wingrove Cooke (1850)
"... whose tenancy of land expires at Lady-day, where he has sown any of his lands
with wheat on a fallow at the wheat seedness next before the expiration of ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1832)
"... and well manure the same for the said crop of wheat so sown thereon at the
wheat seedness preceding the expiration of his said term as aforesaid, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and by Peregrine Bingham, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1831)
"... where he has sown any of his lands with wheat on a fallow at the wheat seedness
next before the expiration of his tenancy, and has afterwards reaped the ..."
6. The Attorney's New Pocket-book, Notary's Manual, and Conveyancer's Assistant by Richard Shipman, Ewen Henry Cameron (1840)
"... and at the spring seedness next after such wheat or winter-corn crop, shall
and will lay down the same with barley or oats, and good sound clover-seed, ..."
7. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"As blossoming time, This passage has been thought corrupt; the word that most
offends me in it, is seedness, which I would change to seeding. ..."
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