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A sowing or planting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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…

One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.

A vessel in which a sower carries the seed to be scattered. [Prov. Eng.]

A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

The season proper for sowing. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. Gen. viii. 22.

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.

To sow; to spread; to propagate. [R.] Waterhouse.

The act of sowing or spreading. [R.]

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

To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow dry, and set wet." Old Proverb.

The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed. Knight.

Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

A sow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

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 sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane corn. Chaucer.

nge cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.