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A pasture. [Obs.]

To sow where something has already been sown. [R.] His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. x

To sow again. Bacon.

To resound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

ually; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

y when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

ed; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground.

probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other.

ed and cashiered. Cowper. They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. Sowth.

ce, a chance or venture. An even cast whether the army should march this way or that way. Sowth. I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

awkward, rude, illmannered boy. O, thuo dissembling cub! what wilt thou be When time hath sowed a drizzle on thy case Shak.

The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

als so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

lies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.