| 单词 |
seedness |
| 释义 |
† ˈseedness Obs.
[f. seed v. + -ness.]
1. The action of sowing, the state of being sown. Also fig.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 256 Trymenstre sednes [v.r. seedis; orig. satio] eke is to respite To placis colde, of wyntir snowis white. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Phil. i. 3–11 So perseuer styll vnto the daye of Christes commynge, that you maye than appeare..aboundauntlye ful of good workes, wherof in this world you make as it wer a seedenesse, and shal reape y⊇ frute therof at y⊇ day. 1601Holland Pliny xix. v. II. 18 The manner is to plant them..at both times of Seednes, to wit, the Spring and the Fall. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iv. 42 As blossoming Time That from the seednes, the bare fallow brings To teeming foyson. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxii. viii. 200 The vast wildernesse (which never felt the plough, nor know [sic] what seednesse [orig. sementem] is, but lye desert, and subject to many frosts). 1661P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 85 Barley much abused in Drunknes, and now Barley seedness hindred, God is Righteous. 1710M. Henry Comm. Isa. xvii. (1848) II. 531 Look upon it at the time of seedness and it shall be like a garden.
b. concr. The thing sown, seed. In quot. fig.
1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 19 As the corne must fyrst be sowen and dye in the yerthe before yt receyve a new bodye,..so must we be the lords sedenes before the happie harvest.
2. Seed-time.
1668R. Steele Husbandm. Calling iii. (1672) 26 From seedness to harvest, he is bound to a constant dependance on God, and from harvest to seedness again. 1793Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) V. 83 At Wheat seedness in 1785, having purchased a Machine, I drilled eighty acres with Wheat. |
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