To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop. In New England, farmers begin tosow in April. They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Psalm 126:5.

The female of the hog kind or of swine.

An oblong piece of lead.

An insect; a milleped.

pret. sowed; pp. sowed or sown.

To scatter on ground, for the purpose growth and the production of a crop; as, to sow good seed; to sow a bushel of wheat or rye to the acre; to sow oats, clover or barley; to sow seed in drills, or to sow it broad cast. Oats and flax should be sown early in the spring.

To scatter seed over for growth; as, to sow ground or land; to sow ten or a hundred acres in a year.

To spread or to originate; to propagate; as, to sow discord. Born to afflict my Marcia’s family, and sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.

To supply or stock with seed. The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.

To scatter over; to besprinkle. He sow’d with stars the heaven. Morn now sow’d the earth with orient pearl.

for sew, is not in use.