Definition of sow

• v. i. - To sew. See Sew.
• n. - The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
• n. - A sow bug.
• n. - A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
• n. - The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
• n. - A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• v. i. - To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.