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SEEDILY
Etymology
Adverb
seedily (comparative more seedily, superlative most seedily)
In a seedy way.
Anagrams
• diesely, eyelids
Source: Wiktionary
SEEDY
Seed"y, a. [Compar. Seedier; superl. Seediest.]
1. Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
2. Having a peculiar flavor 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. [Colloq.] Little Flanigan here . . . is a little seedy, as we say among us that practice the law. Goldsmith. Seedy toe, an affection of a horse's foot, in which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FISSILE
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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