SEW

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower. I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.

2.
v.

To follow; to pursue; to sue. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.

5.
v.

To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.

6.
v.

To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.

7.
v.

To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. [Obs.] Tusser.


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