Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.
To follow; to pursue; to sue. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.
To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. Mark ii. 21.
To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.
To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] Tusser.
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