"meetin' seed" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meetin' seeds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "meetin' seed (countable and uncountable, plural meetin' seeds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Spices and herbs",
          "orig": "en:Spices and herbs",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134",
          "text": "Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Catharine Melinda North, History of Berlin, Connecticut, page 43",
          "text": "[…] fennel, dill, and caraway furnished meeting seed fresh from June to October, and dry from October to June again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 27, Kathi Keville, The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being, Timber Press, page 152",
          "text": "Puritans tucked dill “meetin' seeds” into their Bibles to appease their appetite during long services. Dill perfumes soap and occasionally goes into perfume. The seeds make a good breath freshener.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seed from any of various herb plants (especially fennel, but sometimes caraway, dill, or anise), formerly eaten during church meetings to foster wakefulness, freshen the breath, or keep hunger pangs at bay."
      ],
      "id": "en-meetin'_seed-en-noun-WJsDlErP",
      "links": [
        [
          "fennel",
          "fennel"
        ],
        [
          "caraway",
          "caraway"
        ],
        [
          "dill",
          "dill"
        ],
        [
          "anise",
          "anise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialects) A seed from any of various herb plants (especially fennel, but sometimes caraway, dill, or anise), formerly eaten during church meetings to foster wakefulness, freshen the breath, or keep hunger pangs at bay."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "meeting seed"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "countable",
        "dialectal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "meetin' seed"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "meetin' seeds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "meetin' seed (countable and uncountable, plural meetin' seeds)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Spices and herbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134",
          "text": "Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Catharine Melinda North, History of Berlin, Connecticut, page 43",
          "text": "[…] fennel, dill, and caraway furnished meeting seed fresh from June to October, and dry from October to June again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 27, Kathi Keville, The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being, Timber Press, page 152",
          "text": "Puritans tucked dill “meetin' seeds” into their Bibles to appease their appetite during long services. Dill perfumes soap and occasionally goes into perfume. The seeds make a good breath freshener.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A seed from any of various herb plants (especially fennel, but sometimes caraway, dill, or anise), formerly eaten during church meetings to foster wakefulness, freshen the breath, or keep hunger pangs at bay."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fennel",
          "fennel"
        ],
        [
          "caraway",
          "caraway"
        ],
        [
          "dill",
          "dill"
        ],
        [
          "anise",
          "anise"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, dialects) A seed from any of various herb plants (especially fennel, but sometimes caraway, dill, or anise), formerly eaten during church meetings to foster wakefulness, freshen the breath, or keep hunger pangs at bay."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "countable",
        "dialectal",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "meeting seed"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meetin' seed"
}