SOW

noun a sow bug.

2. sow ·vi to sew. ·see sew.

3. sow ·noun the female of swine, or of the hog kind.

4. sow ·noun the bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

5. sow ·noun a mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

6. sow ·noun a channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

7. sow ·vi to scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop;

— literally or figuratively.

8. sow ·noun 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. sow ·vt to scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. also used figuratively: to scatter over; to besprinkle.

10. sow ·vt to scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. also used figuratively: to spread abroad; to propagate.