Seeding

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with
        seedlike decorations.
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              A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes. --B. Jonson.
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     {To seed down}, to sow with grass seed.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "seeding":
     Dry Ice, artificial nucleation, broadcast, broadcasting,
     cloud seeder, cloud-seeding, dissemination, insemination, planting,
     rain doctor, rainmaker, rainmaking, reforestation, resetting,
     retimbering, semination, setting, silver iodide, sowing,
     transplantation