Definition of sow

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Sow (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..

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Sower :: Sower (n.) One who, or that which, sows..
Disavowal :: Disavowal (n.) The act of disavowing, disclaiming, or disowning; rejection and denial..
Sowne :: Sowne (v. t. & i.) To sound.
Emblement :: Emblement (n.) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement..
Harrow :: Harrow (n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown..
Litter :: Litter (n.) The young brought forth at one time, by a sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig..
Sowens :: Sowens (n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England..
Sowbane :: Sowbane (n.) The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine..
Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..
Seeder :: Seeder (n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed..
Sowar :: Sowar (n.) In India, a mounted soldier..
Fallow :: Fallow (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds..
Sowce :: Sowce (n. & v.) See Souse.
Spay :: Spay (v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal)..
Sowans :: Sowans (n. pl.) See Sowens.
Resow :: Resow (v. t.) To sow again.
Cassowary :: Cassowary (n.) A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs with great rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc..
Sowl :: Sowl (v. i.) See Soul, v. i..
Curassow :: Curassow (n.) A large gallinaceous bird of the American genera Crax, Ourax, etc., of the family Cracidae..
Emu :: Emu (n.) A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly..
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