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Seeded

Seed \Seed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeding.]

  1. To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

  2. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

    A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.
    --B. Jonson.

    To seed down, to sow with grass seed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seeded

1922 in the sports sense (originally tennis), past participle adjective from seed (v.).

Wiktionary
seeded
  1. (context sports English) being a seed, being in a seed position. v

  2. (en-past of: seed)

WordNet
seeded
  1. adj. (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds [ant: unseeded]

  2. having the seeds extracted; "seeded raisins"

  3. having seeds as specified; "many-seeded"; "black-seeded"

  4. having or supplied with seeds; "a seeded breadfruit"; "seeded rolls"

  5. sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn" [syn: sown]

Usage examples of "seeded".

She had cut the hard little apples in half, seeded them, then boiled them for a while with dried rose hips.

Great Wizard seeded his mountain, but now I think I would be interested in the legend.

Wizard seeded all the animals his daughter wanted to take to her new kingdom to play with and enjoy.

Thouin found that three species of Robinia, which seeded freely on their own roots, and which could be grafted with no great difficulty on another species, when thus grafted were rendered barren.

Theoretically if a tract of timber were large enough, it could be opened up by logging operations which, instead of proceeding steadily from one edge, might skip every other landing or so until the most remote portion was reached after a few years, and then work back again, cleaning up the neglected portions after they had seeded the first openings.

Suppose you had a field of wheat seeded down to clover, and the clover failed.

A barley crop seeded with clover would be better, especially if the mangels were heavily manured.

August and September is hauled upon ground to be seeded with wheat and grass-seeds.

Or, if thought better, it might be sown to rye and seeded down with it.

Both these fields were seeded down with clover last year, but the clover failed, and there was nothing to be done but to risk them again with wheat.

The land is now seeded down with clover, and with the aid of a bushel or two of plaster per acre, next spring, it is not improbable that, if mown twice for hay next year, it will yield in the two crops three tons of hay per acre.

The wheat with which the clover was seeded down, yielded 40 bushels per acre.

Then, as if that had given you mandate for a full-scale assault, you send your whole force into the likeliest valley, the mountains alongside it having previously been seeded with the huo-yao balls.

I should say a lawn of two different varieties of grass, one pale green, one very dark, and the two seeded in alternate smaller squares, in a checkered effect.

Not that they were content with this: they had also seeded the dome with a defensive array of dovin basals.