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The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]

ity of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42. The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.

Incapable of being The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. Ld. Lytton.

To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.

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

tion. [Obs.] Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of…

To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.

To deny; to disown. [Obs.]

To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak. All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith and thee unholy leagued. Sylvester.

To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] Evelyn.

a small pearl of little value. -- Seed plat, or Seed plot, the ground on which seeds are sown, to produce plants for transplanting; a nursery. -- Seed stalk (Bot.), the stalk of an ovule or seed; a funicle. -- Seed tick (Zoöl.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color. -- Seed vessel (Bot…

Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

Thickly covered or sown, as with seeds. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

onsisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. 44.

To sow, as seed, over something previously sown. [Obs.] That can not be done with joy, when it shall be indifferent to any man to superseminate what he please. Jer. Taylor.

The sowing of seed over seed previously sown. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.