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Sow   /saʊ/  /soʊ/   Listen
verb
Sow  v. t.  (past sowed; past part. sown; pres. part. sowing)  
1.
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate. "He would sow some difficulty." "A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside." "And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers."
2.
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.  To sew. See Sew. (Obs.)


Sow  v. i.  (past sowed; past part. sown; pres. part. sowing)  To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; literally or figuratively. "They that sow in tears shall reap in joi."


noun
Sow  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
2.
(Zool.) A sow bug.
3.
(Metal.)
(a)
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(b)
The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(c)
A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
4.
(Mil.) 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.
Sow bread. (Bot.) See Cyclamen.
Sow bug, or Sowbug (Zool.), 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 (Bot.), a composite plant (Sonchus oleraceus) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals.





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"Sow" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometimes wonder'd, when I have read the Whimsies and Conceits of the Arab Enthusiasts (whose numerous Sects equal those Heresies mention'd by Epiphanius, or even that plentiful Crop which the Devil has sow'd of them in our times) to find such a Harmony between them and ours at present. Such a perfect Agreement in their wild Notions, and these express'd in the very self-same Cant, may easily convince any one, that the Instruments of both were strung and tun'd by the same Hand. Another ...
— The Improvement of Human Reason - Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan • Ibn Tufail
... he missed his mark, Derry, derry, derry, decco; The tailor shot, and he missed his mark, And shot his old sow right through the heart Heigh-ho! the carrion crow, Derry, ...
— The Baby's Bouquet - A Fresh Bunch of Rhymes and Tunes • Walter Crane
... believe. He said to himself: "Just see! There, where the grass was long, the cattle were lean; here, where you can hardly see the grass, the cattle are so fat!" The horse kept on, and Vincenzo after him. After a while he met a sow with her tail full of large knots, and wondered why she had such a tail. Farther on he came to a watering-trough, where there was a toad trying to reach a crumb of bread, and could not. Vincenzo continued his way, and arrived at a large gate. The horse ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... Athenians have honest appetites, and due means of silencing them. The diet of a poor man is indeed simple in the extreme. According to Aristophanes his meal consists of a cake, bristling with bran for the sake of economy, along with an onion and a dish of sow thistles, or of mushrooms, or some other such wretched vegetables; and probably, in fact, that is about all three fourths of the population of Attica will get on ordinary working days, always with the addition of a certain indispensable supply ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... "Sow thy seed in the morning, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou knowest not whether this or ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland


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