† seedow
var. siddow a., tender, mellow.
Holland seems to have supposed the word to mean ‘fit to serve as seed’.
| 1601 Holland Pliny xix. vii. II. 23 But they [the seeds] must be all throughly dried before they be seedow and fruitfull. [Fr. pour rendre les graines bonnes à semer, il les fault toutes secher.] |