online medical dictionary | definition of seedy

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

2. Having a peculiar flavour 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.

(01 Mar 1998)