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§5; §119; §306; §425; §563;
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what is sown: in pl.
kinds of seeds
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  • .iii. æceras geerian on heora ágenre hwíle and mid heora ágenan sǽda gesáwan,

      C. D. iv. 306, 28.

  • Sǽdu on eorðan sendan,

      Lch. iii. 188, 1.
an individual grain of seed
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  • Hiera sǽd gefeóllon on ðá ðornas,

      Past. 67, 20.

  • Gelíc senepes corne . . . Ðæt is ealra sǽda (séda, R., from allum sédum, L.) lǽst simile grano sinapis . . . Quod minimum est omnibus seminibus, Mt. 13, 32. I a.

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    :-- Ne becóme hé nó tó ðǽm sǽde ðáre wróhte,
      Past. 358, 2.

  • Þǽr nǽnig láreów ǽr cóm þá sǽd sáwan þæs hálgan geleáfan,

      Bd. 3, 7; Sch. 212, 8.
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semen
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  • Wið swíðlicne fléwsan sǽdes,

      Lch. i. 220, 3.

  • Wíf. . . ymbe .xl. níhta þæs ðe heó þám sǽde

    (semen)

    onfó,
      Ll. Th. 154, 16.

  • Gif man on ciricean slǽpende his sǽd ágeóte,

      138, 11.
progeny
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  • Nim of eallum clǽnum nítenum seofen and seofen ǽgðres gecyndes. . . þæt sǽd sí gehealden ofer ealre eorðan brádnisse,

      Gen. 7, 3.

  • Séd árleásra forweorðeð,

      Ps. Srt. 36, 28.

  • Ealle seofon hí hæfdon, and sǽd (séd ł teám,

      L., séd, R.) ne lǽfdon, Mk. 12, 22. v.
    æcer-, beán-, cawel-, corn-, nǽp-, senep-sǽd.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sǽd.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/57479.

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