Sow /(?)/
Sow
v. i.
- To sew. See Sew. [Obs.]
Sow
n.
- The female of swine, or of the hog kind. (Zool.)
- A sow bug. (Zool.)
- A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed. (Metal.)
- A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like. (Mil.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Sow bread
- See Cyclamen.
- Sow bug
- any one of numerous species of terrestrial Isopoda belonging to Oniscus, Porcellio, and allied genera of the family Oniscidae. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances.
- Sow thistle
- a composite plant (Sonchus oleraceus) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals.
Sow
v. t.
imp. Sowed; p. p. Sown; p. pr. & vb. n. Sowing
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To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
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To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
v. i.
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To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.