Sow

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1. Verb

To sew. See Sew.

2. Noun

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

3. Noun

A sow bug.

4. Noun

A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

5. Noun

The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

6. Noun

A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

7. Noun

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.

8. Verb

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

9. Verb

To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

10. Verb

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

11. Noun

an adult female hog
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment

12. Verb

introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs"
Vocabulary classified under Media and communication
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