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- noun Plural form of
seede .
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Examples
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All beleevers have a like precious faith: All true Christians have all graces in their seedes; but the degrees of them are no way better discerned then by zeale: Men of place distinguish themselves, by glistering pearles: A Christian of degrees shines above other in zeale.
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And in this resembling the learning of an euill man to the seedes sowen in barren ground.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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In trees also and fruites, there is for the most part, a greater force and power in the nature of the soile and water where they grow, eyther for the pruning and planting, then there is if straunge impes and seedes be grifted and sowen there.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And next vnto them a confection, of the iuice of Lymons tempered with fine Sugar, the seedes of Pines, Rose water, Muske, Saffron, and choyce Synamon, and thus were all the sawces made with conuenient gradation and deliuery.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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If I prove more than I promise, I will impute it to the bountie of the gracious Soile where my endevours are planted, whose soveraine vertue divided with such worthles seedes, hath transformed my unregarded slips to medcinable simples.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Henrico, remedied to some extent the pernicious system of a community of property by allotting to each settler three acres of land to be worked for his individual benefit; planted "comon gardens for hemp and flaxe, and such other seedes," and conquered the Appomattox Indians and took
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Some take it to bee Planta Solis: of the seedes heere of they make both a kinde of bread and broth.
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By this meanes there is a yarde spare ground betwene euery hole: where according to discretion here and there, they set as many Beanes and Peaze: in diuers places also among the seedes of Macócqwer, Melden and Planta Solis.
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They brought us also some caveare, which I attempted to order, but all to no purpose, for they had neither given it salt enough, nor are the seedes of the roe broke, but are all in berryes.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 15: March/April 1661-62 Samuel Pepys 1668
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I attempted to order, but all to no purpose, for they had neither given it salt enough, nor are the seedes of the roe broke, but are all in berryes.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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