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▪ I. sower|ˈsəʊə(r)|
Forms: 1–2, 4–6 sawere, 2 sæwere, 4 sauer, 4–6, 9 Sc. sawer, 6 Sc. sawar; 3–4 sowere, 4– sower.
[f. sow v.1 + -er. Cf. MDu. saeyer, sayer, etc. (Du. zaaier), MLG. and LG. seiger, seier (saier), OHG. sâhari, sâari (MHG. sejer, seher, sewer, etc., G. säer).]
1. One who sows seed.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 3 Soþlice, ut-eode se sædere [v.r. sawere, Hatton sæwere] hys sæd to sawenne. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 Ðo beden þe holi apostles seien hem wat þe sowere bitocneð. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xviii. 103 Now failleþ þis folke boþe sowers and shupmen. c1400Cursor M. 28839 (Cotton Galba), Þaire sede to þe feld bus husbandes bere, Bot þis feld cumes to þe sawere. 1532–3Act 24 Hen. VIII, c. 10 All tillers, husbandes, and sowers of the erth within the same. 1573Tusser Husb (1878) 37 Good seede and good sower. 1611Bible Isaiah lv. 10 That it may giue seed to the sower. 1762Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 321 The inequality of the handfuls which different sowers grasp. 1822A. Cunningham Tradit. Tales, Mother's Dream (1887) 119 A humble sower of seed-corn. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xxiv, I..read to them the parable of the Sower.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 133 Godes word is sed and crist is þe sawere. 1526Tindale Mark iv. 14 The sower soweth the worde. 1779Cowper The Sower 3 The Sower is gone forth to sow, And scatter blessings round. 1821Shelley Hellas 576 The Greek has reaped The costly harvest his own blood matured, Not the sower, Ali. 1874W. St. H. Bourne Hymn, ‘The sower went forth sowing’ iv. (A. & M.), One day the heavenly Sower Shall reap where He hath sown.
c. A machine or apparatus for sowing seed; a sowing-machine.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Sembrador, To remedy this Inconvenience, the Sembrador or Sower, is invented, which being fastened to the Plough, the whole Business..is done at once. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 788 A simpler implement than even this has been employed—the hand-flask sower. 1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 417 Field No. 1..sown with broadcast sower and cultivator combined.
2. transf. One who spreads abroad or disseminates something, esp. what is obnoxious or objectionable; a promoter or propagator of discord, sedition, etc.
1380Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 734 Bakbyters and sowers of fals lesynggys. c1386Chaucer Sec. Nun's T. 192 Almyghty Lord,..Sower of chaste counseil, herde of us alle. c1450in Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VIII. 469 The myrroure of ypocrites, the sawer of discorde,..maister Iohn Wiclif. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. vii. (S.T.S.) I. 271 Ane cumpany of..seditious lymmaris, sawaris of discorde. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T iv b, Mars the God of discord and sower of all Sedition. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Mem. State Wks. (1711) 130 Clouis..caused extirpate that sower of impostures, & all his race. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 160 The favourite theme of the sowers of sedition.
▪ II. sower
obs. f. sewer n.3, sore n.2 and n.3
▪ III. sower(ed etc.,
obs. forms of soured, etc. |