Word Meaning

seed definition and meaning

n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
n. Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
v. t. To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
v. t. To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
v. t. To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
v. t. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
v. t. To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
v. t. To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
v. i. To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
v. i. Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
v. i. To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.
pl. of Seed
n. A ripened 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.
n. Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
n. The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
n. That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
n. The principle of production.
n. Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
n. Race; generation; birth.
v. t. To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
v. t. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Crossword clues for seed

- Behold
- Bishop’s diocese is in Sweden? How odd!
- Catch glimpse of
- Catch glimpse of odd Swede
- Check out
- Date witness
- Diocese
- Distinguish
- Espy
- Extremely secretive notice
- Fourth seed removed notice
- Glimpse
- Look at
- Look at diocese
- Look at the notice
- Look upon
- Notice
- Observe
- Odd scene to witness
- Papal court, Holy ...
- Realise
- Republican seeking to observe
- She had the oddest waves
- Take notice of where to find bishop’s cathedral
- Understand
- View
- View from archbishop’s office
- Visualise
- What you ... is what you get
- Witness
- Witness (event)
- Witness in Pope’s Holy Court
- Witness some of these events
- Arrange tennis draw
- Budgie food
- Fruit pip
- Growing agent
- Kernel
- Mature fertilised plant ovule
- Offspring
- Organs of growth
- Plant embryo
- Plant ovule
- Plant part
- Ranked performer
- Ranked player gives up the pip!
- Ranked tennis player wants to give up, by the sound of it
- Sow
- Tennis rating for Pip
- That which is sown