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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

sǣdtīma

The season proper for sowing.

While the earth remaineth,

seedtime

and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Gen. viii. 22.

seedtime ‎(plural seedtimes)

The time to sow a seed.
- Milton
  Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
(figuratively) A time for new development.

the time to sow a seed