Sow
[səʊ] or [so]
Definition
(noun.) an adult female hog.
(verb.) introduce into an environment; 'sow suspicion or beliefs'.
(verb.) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; 'She sowed sunflower seeds'.
Editor: Will--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
(n.) A sow bug.
(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Checker: Mortimer
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hog (female), pig, swine.
v. a. [1]. Scatter, strew, spread.[2]. Disseminate, disperse, propagate, spread abroad.[3]. Plant, put seed in.[4]. Besprinkle, scatter over.
v. n. Plant, scatter seed, put in seed.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Scatter, disseminate, plant, strew,[See SOPHISM]
Edited by Horace
Definition
n. a female pig: the metal solidified in parallel grooves or pigs the iron of these being pig-iron: a movable shed for protecting the men using a battering-ram.—ns. Sow′back a low ridge of sand or gravel; Sow′-bread a genus of plants allied to the primrose natives of the south of Europe the tubers of which are eaten by swine; Sow′-bug an air-breathing oniscoid isopod a pill-bug slater.—adj. Sow′-drunk (prov.) beastly drunk.—ns. Sow′-geld′er one who spays sows; Sow′-this′tle a genus of plants the tender tops of which are used in the north of Europe as greens.
v.t. to scatter seed that it may grow: to plant by strewing: to scatter seed over: to spread disseminate.—v.i. to scatter seed for growth:—pa.p. sown and sowed.—ns. Sow′er; Sow′ing; Sow′ing-machine′ a hand or horse-power seed-planting machine: a broadcast sower.
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Examples
- The melted purified iron falling to the bottom was drawn off through a hole tapped in the furnace, and the molten metal ran into channels in a bed of sand called the Sow and pigs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They sow all kinds of grain,--wheat, clover, and superphosphate, if need be, at once. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He that kills a breeding-sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- We must sow the good seed somehow. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To break the pigs from the sow, and handle the iron in transportation, was a very laborious and expensive work. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Heretofore, the iron was run in open sand moulds on the floor and allowed to cool in bars called pigs, which were united in a series to a main body of the flow, called a sow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This sea bottom, in localities near land, is abundantly sown with wrecks, old and new, and in many cases bearing permanently valuable cargoes, such as gold and coal. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The same has been found to hold good when one variety and several mixed varieties of wheat have been sown on equal spaces of ground. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; and that may be the case here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But I must not shrink from a professional duty, even if it sows dissensions in families. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It sows evenly, and sows a specific quantity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Probably he prepared the ground for his sowing with a pole, or a pole upon which he had stuck a stag's horn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already indicated how easily and naturally men may have come to associate the idea of sowing with a burial. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The settled Chinese population went on sowing and reaping and trading during this change of masters without lending its weight to either side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had to fix a seedtime, a propitious seedtime, or his sowing was a failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Each year they landed, and sowed and harvested a crop of wheat before going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the lake dwellers sowed their little patches of wheat in Switzerland, they were already following the immemorial practice of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He reaped, no doubt, before he sowed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sowed 'em, to come up small salad. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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