noun

• (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
  "[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]"
• (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
• (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
  "If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn."
• (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
  "The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed."

verb

• (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
  "I seeded my lawn with bluegrass."
• (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
  "[…] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]"
• (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
  "A venture capitalist seeds young companies."
• (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
  "Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass."

verb

• (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
  "Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees.""