Bible Dictionaries
Sow

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

(2):

(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

(3):

(v. i.) To sew. See Sew.

(4):

(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.

(5):

(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

(6):

(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

(7):

(n.) A sow bug.

(8):

(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.

(9):

(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

(10):

(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sow'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sow.html. 1828.