单词 | sow |
释义 | sown.1 1. a. The female of swine; an adult or full-grown female pig, esp. a domestic one used for breeding. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) > female or sow sowc725 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > female > sow sowc725 sow-pig1548 maggot1608 α. β. c1150 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 543 Scroffa, suwa.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 152 Þe suȝe of ȝiuernesse haueð gris. þus þet beoð inempned.c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 62 A-mong alle bestes..A-corsed þou beo, luþere souwe.c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 731 Sengler, troie, et suel, Bor, sowe, and gilte.c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. iii. 122 He is wiþholden in þe foule delices of þe foule soowe.14.. Sir Beues (C.) 2509 Hys heere was as þe brystels of a sowe.a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 43 In the pathe he saw a gret blacke swyne and a sowe.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii Lette them be bores and sowes all, and no hogges.1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31v Good faring sow, holdes profit with kow.a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 80 Powre in Sowes blood, that hath eaten Her nine Farrow. View more context for this quotation1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 117 The large sided sow is best.1764 Museum Rusticum 1 476 When I have a parcel of young pigs in winter, I find these sows will fat them better.1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 29 The lean sows and boars collect about her.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 21 All the swine were sows.1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 222 A tough old sow and the mother thereon, Then follow the witches, every one.γ. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 187 On a tyme þer was a man þat stale his neghbur sew.1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 101 Hoggs, v sewes and one boore. 1684 [see sense 2]. 1807 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (c1850) 151 Twee braid-backt tips, and a bonny sew.1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Sew, Soo, or Seoo, a sow.δ. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 35 Geue him the milke of a Soo. 1883 [see γ. ]. c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S 172 Scroffa, sugu. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care liv. 419 Sio sugu hi wille sylian on hire sole æfterðæmðe hio aðwægen bið. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 61 Hy byeþ anlicned to þe zoȝe huanne hi heþ yuarȝed. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 13358 I logge..As a sowhe, in donge and clay. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 117 And it were for a sogh Ther is drynk enogh. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1621 J. Taylor Motto D iv At Primefisto, Post and payre, Primero,..he's a lib'rall Hero; At My-Sow-pigg'd, and (Reader neuer doubt ye, He's skil'd in all games, except) Looke about ye. 1642 Tom Nash His Ghost A iv For your Religions you may (many of you) cast Crosse and Pile, and for your iust dealing you may play at my Sow ha's Pigg'd. 1734 Poor Robin C vj The Lawyers play at Beggar my Neighbour; the School~masters play at Questions and Commands; the Farmers play at My Sow's pigg'd. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield 115 ‘My sow's pigg'd’ was a game at cards played in this neighbourhood some forty-five years ago. 2. Applied to persons (male or female) as a term of abuse, opprobrium, or reproach, esp. to a fat, clumsy, or slovenly woman. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirty person > [noun] mesela1400 scabbardc1440 slotterbugc1440 drivel1498 sow1508 wallydraigle?a1513 sloven1530 filthy1553 ketterela1572 slabberer1611 slubberdegullion1612 Grobian1621 slabberdegullion1653 slobber-chops1670 slate1718 haverel1720 slobberer1732 slummock1760 fleabag1805 slush1825 slob1876 trashbag1887 crumb1918 garbage can1925 hog1932 crud1940 sordid1959 grot1970 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 Insensuate sow, cesse, false Eustase air. a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 743 Sweir sow, doyld kow, ay fow, foull fall thy banes! 1630 Articles against Durham Innovators in J. Cosin Corr. 3 Aug. (1869) I. xc. 174 You tore her sleeve, with these reprochfull words, ‘Can ye not stand, ye lazie sowes?’ 1684 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (E.D.S.) 13 Ise ding thy Harnes out, thou base mucky Sew. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Sow,..a term of Reproach given many times to a fat, lazy, rank, big breasted Woman. 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 261 The Wife [has been called] Sow, Fool, dirty Drab. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sow, a fat woman. 1803 A. Boswell Songs 5 Ye're a sow, auld man, Ye get fou, auld man. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Sow, an inelegant female, a dirty wench. 3. In various phrases or proverbial uses: a. to get, have, or take the (or †a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear, or variants of this: To get hold of, hit upon, the wrong (or right) person or thing; to take an incorrect (or correct) view; to arrive at a wrong (or right) conclusion, solution, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > be right [verb (intransitive)] to reckon righta1400 to read right?a1425 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to get (also have) something right1565 to have the right scope of1570 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase] to miss the cushiona1529 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to pray without one's beads1641 to have the wrong end of the stick?1793 to bark up the wrong tree1832 the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834 to have another think coming1896 you have another guess coming1935 to be off the beam1941 blow1943 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kiv Ye maie see, ye tooke The wrong waie to wood, & the wrong sow by theare. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2034/1 I perceiue..that that man hath the sow by the right eare. 1630 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth in Wks. ii. 180/2 I knew when he first medled with your Ladyship, that hee had a wrong Sow by the eare. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop ii. 16 He that goes to a courtier in hope to get fairly rid of 'em may be said, in our country-dialect, to take the wrong sow by the ear. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 463 Crabshaw..told her he believed she had got the right sow by the ear. 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 162 The sow that ought By the ear is caught—And the sin to the sinful door is brought. 1847 T. De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 582/2 When he finds that he has not only got the wrong sow by the ear, but actually sold the sow to a bookseller. b. In other allusive phrases.See also silk n. and adj. Compounds 1 and still adj. ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Dv Litle knoweth the fat sow, what the lean doth meane. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Iiiv God a mercy hors, a pyg of myne owne sowe. 1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xi. sig. Ciiv What should we (quoth he) grease the fat sow in thars. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest Pref. sig. Aviij Not to teach or shew the learned, howe in this point Nature hath wrought (for that were as the prouerb is, ye Sow to Minerua). 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 676 In Latin they say Sus mineruam, when an vnlearned dunce goeth about to teach his better or a more learned man,..or as we say in English, the foule Sow teach the faire Lady to spin. c. In comparative phrases, esp. as drunk as David's sow or as a sow (cf. quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. i. sig. Fiii As meete as a sow To beare a saddle. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F2 I am as seruiceable at a table, as a sow is vnder an apple tree. 1727 J. Gay New Song Similes in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. ii For, though as drunk as David's sow, I love her still the better. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 39 A man is said to be..when he cannot see, ‘as drunk as a sow’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 233 ‘As happy as a sow i' muck,’ or ‘in a muck-hill’; a phrase setting forth the contented state of those who live for sensual pleasure. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 233 ‘As drunk as David's sow’ is a simile conveying the idea of the deepest state of intoxication. 4. a. Military. A movable structure having a strong roof, used to cover men advancing to the walls of a besieged town or fortress, and to protect them while engaged in sapping and mining or other operations. Now Historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 c1125 William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum (1998) I. iv. §369. 646 Vnum fuit machinamentum quod nostri suem, ueteres uineam uocant, quod machina..protegit in se subsidentes, qui quasi more suis ad murorum suffodienda penetrant fundamenta.] Categories » b. U.S. ‘A movable shed used as a protection by miners’ (1895 Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang.). 5. a. A woodlouse or sow-bug. Now chiefly dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus lockchestera1400 sow14.. lugdora1425 louk?a1450 lockchestc1450 cheslip1530 palmer1538 chestworm1544 Robin Goodfellow's louse1552 monk's peason1558 cheslock1574 porcelet1578 swine louse1579 hog-louse1580 multiped1601 kitchen-bob1610 woodlouse1611 loop1612 millipede1612 timber-sow1626 cheeselog1657 sow-louse1658 thurse-louse1658 onisc1661 monkey pea1682 slater1684 slatter1739 sow-bug1750 Oniscus1806 pig louse1819 hob-thrush1828 land-slater1863 pig's louse1888 wall-louse1899 oniscoid1909 chucky-pig1946 14.. in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 204 Geve hym of these sowes that crepe with many fete, and falle oute of howce rovys. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount f. 23v Then take twelue or fiftene of these litle beastes called Monkes peason or sowes. 1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer vii, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 51 There be little beastes called Sowes, which haue many legs. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. viii. 39 If wals be full of sowes and such other like vermine. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 50 Asellus, the Tylers Lowse, or, Sow. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Ulcer For Ulcers.., Take Millepedes, call'd by some in English Wood-Lice, and by others Sows. a1825– in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Linc., Leic., Northants, Nottingham, etc.) 1877 F. P. Pascoe Zool. Classif. 62 Some of the Oniscidæ are land animals, and are known as hog-lice, sows, &c. b. sea-sow: see sea-sow n. at sea n. Compounds 6d. 6. technical. A large oblong mass of solidified metal as obtained from the blast- or smelting-furnace: a. Of lead. Now Obsolete or rare.So Middle Dutch soge in a document of 1445. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > lead in specific form > pig or half-pig sow1481 pig1589 piece1747 stave1864 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 311 My Lord paied to Geffrey Blower for ij. sowes lede..weying..xvj. c. iij. quarters and xiiij. lb. a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 72 With clothes vpon her hed That wey a sowe of led. 1546 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 182 For meltyng of the leade.., and castyng into sowes. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 611 Twenty sowes of lead long in forme, but foure square. 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 770 It is cast into Sand, and runs into those Sowes (as they call them) which they sell. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 260/2 A Pig or Sow of Lead, is generally about three hundred pounds apiece. 1700 J. Brome Trav. i. 31 The [Lead] Ore..being..afterward melted down into Pigs and Sows, as they are there call'd. b. Of iron. (See note to pig n.1 11 and quots.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > a pig of iron sow1539 pig1657 1539 in Hist. Sussex (Victoria Co. Hist.) II. 245/2 To melt the Sowes in ij forges or Fynories ther must be iiij persones. 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xv. 108 The second kinde of Mettellar is the sowe of iron. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xvii. 139 The molten Iron..turning into a hard and stiff mass, which masses are called Sowes by the workmen. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 817 And then of Iron he brought out a Sough Such as at first it from the Fornace came. a1744 Lucas in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1908) 8 38 They break the Sow and Pigs off from one another, and the Sow into the same Lengths with the Piggs. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 408 [article Smith] The price of iron, in bars, pigs, and ‘sows’, has been upon the advance. 1894 Harper's Mag. Jan. 418 When the metal cools, the larger masses are called ‘sows’, and the smaller ‘pigs’. c. In general use: A bar or mass of metal; an ingot. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal > in form of pigs > pig, ingot, or bar gada1325 lingot1488 rod1494 niggot1579 nygot1579 ingot1582 sow1590 pig1620 forge-pig1839 1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. B3 A place..where they had great store of treasure and Sowes of siluer. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) Ed. Ded. sig. A2 By fire to trie out the Metall, and to cast it into certeine rude lumpes, which they call Sowze. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 225 Diodorus reckons upward of 400 thousand talents of silver, and gold in sowes and wedges. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. App. 41/1 Upon further Diving, the Indian fetcht up a Sow, as they stil'd it, or a Lump of Silver. d. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 387 If any man shall like to take this my base mettall, drawne out of a fewe Sowȝe, into many Sheetes. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 64 This vnciuill Norman hotpotch, this sow of lead, that hath neuer a ring at the end to lift it vp by. e. One of the larger channels, or the main channel, in the hearth of an iron-smelting furnace, serving as a feeder to the smaller channels or ‘pigs’ (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > hearth or floor of furnace > parts of ash-hole1651 workstone1667 ash-pit1797 sow1843 cinderblock1868 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 371 The metal is led from the furnace, through a gutter lined with sand, into a large trough or sow, the end of which is closed with a shuttle. 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron 129 These feeders or sows are themselves put in connection with a common main channel, d, leading from the tap-hole to the lower end of the sand- or pig-bed. f. (See quot. 1873.) ΚΠ 1873 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1871–3 1 112 Metallic iron, not finding heat enough in a lead-furnace to keep it sufficiently fluid to run out with the slag, congeals in the hearth, and forms what smelters term ‘sows’, ‘bears’, ‘horses’, or ‘salamanders’. 7. Scottish and northern. A large oblong-shaped rick or stack, esp. of hay. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick moweOE rickeOE pease-ricka1325 stackc1330 tassc1330 rucka1382 hayrick14.. haystack14.. sedge reekc1440 hay-mow1483 hay-goaf1570 rack1574 hovel1591 scroo1604 mow-stack1611 sow1659 corn-rick1669 bean-rick1677 barley-mow1714 pea rick1766 rickle1768 bike1771 stacklet1796 bean-stack1828 1659 A. Hay Diary (1901) 155 My whole hey was a great ruck of the Lawes meadow, and 3 litle rucks,..all which I did put in one sow in the yaird. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) v. 125 Severall great sows of hay were on the cannall..; it looked very odd to see a hay sow, perhaps fifty or sixty foot long,..sailling along. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 220 The stack is frequently made in an oblong form, which is vulgarly called a sow. 1833 J. S. Sands Poems 168 (E.D.D.) Like the donkey wi' the sous Of hay. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold viii Behind was the farm-yard, and well-stocked with fat stacks of grain and hay ‘sows’. Compounds C1. General attributive and in other combinations (chiefly in sense 1). a. (a) sowcunt n. coarse nonce-wd. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 517 (Her sowcunt barks). Fohracht! sow-feeder n. ΚΠ 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 37/2 Such an arrangement with individual sow-feeders, allows for better attention to each sow. sow-hair n. ΚΠ a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. iv. sig. Civ The Aule steele and Tackes, the Sow-haires beside. sow-herd n. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Scrofipascus,.. a sow hearde. sow-pap n. ΚΠ c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 437 Þan he garte caste it emang swyne at þai mott devowr it; and þer it was nurisshid on a sew papp. sow-skin n. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 20 If Tinkers may haue leaue to liue, and beare the Sow-skin Bowget. 1823 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 459 He instantly crammed it back again into the sow-skin purse from which he had taken it. sow-sticking n. ΚΠ 1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 649 At the sow-sticking..the neighbours lend helping hands. sow-tail n. ΚΠ 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 154 A runt was like a sow-tail Sae bow't that night. sow-teat n. ΚΠ a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 216 Trypherus the learned, who Carves large sow-teats. (b) sow-dugged adj. ΚΠ 1960 W. H. Auden Homage to Clio 55 Steatopygous, sow-dugged and owl-headed. (c) sow-like adv. ΚΠ 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 162 For, to dismount from true loues loftie pitch..Is, Sow-like, to lie mired in the ditch Of lowest Hell. b. See also sow-gelder n., sow-iron n., sow-metal n. sow-belly n. U.S. slang (salted) side of pork. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > salt or cured pork Old Ned1833 sidemeat1841 sow-belly1867 salt side1892 pancetta1954 1867 W. L. Goss Soldier's Story 205 My captor presented to me a generous slice of ‘sow-belly’. 1874 J. C. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade To fish up a piece of ‘sow belly’ and dine sumptuously. 1898 Daily News 12 July 5/3 Some of them are begging food from the soldiers, who can give nothing except ‘sow belly and hard tack’. 1902 O. Wister Virginian vi. 65 The eternal ‘sow-belly’, beans, and coffee. 1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) iii. viii. 97 Tits fed this baby pickles, beer, sow-belly and cabbage. 1976 G. Ewart No Fool iii. 69 To go into your South, a different life. Sow-belly and cornbread with syrup poured over it. sow-drunk adj. (see sense 3c). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. xvli Some sowe dronke, swaloyinge mete without mesure Some mawdelayne dronke, mournynge lowdly & hye. c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 82 Yet shal ye find mo yt drink themself sow drunk of pride to be called good felowes, than for luste of the drink self. 1880 Ld. Tennyson Northern Cobbler iv Soa sow~droonk that tha doesn not touch thy 'at to the Squire. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > movable shed sow1297 mantel1357 snail1408 vinet1408 whelk1408 circlec1440 barbed-cat1489 mantle1489 mantlet1524 vine1565 tortoise1569 sow-guard1582 penthouse1600 penticle1600 target-roof1601 vinea1601 fence-roof1609 testudo1609 cat-house1614 vineyard1650 tortoiseshell1726 manta1829 cat1833 ram-house1850 tortoise-roof1855 bear1865 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 They clinge thee scalinges too wals, and vnder a sowgard They clymb. sow-libber n. Scottish a sow-gelder. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > spaying sow > one who sow-gelder?1518 sow-libber1706 1706 Blythsome Wedding in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1977) I. 22 There will be Sow-libber Peatie. sow-louse n. a woodlouse, sow-bug (now dialect). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus lockchestera1400 sow14.. lugdora1425 louk?a1450 lockchestc1450 cheslip1530 palmer1538 chestworm1544 Robin Goodfellow's louse1552 monk's peason1558 cheslock1574 porcelet1578 swine louse1579 hog-louse1580 multiped1601 kitchen-bob1610 woodlouse1611 loop1612 millipede1612 timber-sow1626 cheeselog1657 sow-louse1658 thurse-louse1658 onisc1661 monkey pea1682 slater1684 slatter1739 sow-bug1750 Oniscus1806 pig louse1819 hob-thrush1828 land-slater1863 pig's louse1888 wall-louse1899 oniscoid1909 chucky-pig1946 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 932 Flyes, Gnats, Sowlice, Fleas, that do much hurt and do no good. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Sow-louse, the wood-louse. C2. In plant-names. See also sow-thistle n.Some others are current in dialects or U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > goose-foot goose-foot1548 oak of Jerusalem1551 chenopod1555 oak of Paradise1578 stinking motherwort1578 allseed1597 chenopodium1597 good King Harry1597 stinking orach1597 sowbane1657 strawberry blite1753 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cccix. 577 Goose-foot or Sowbane. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 271 Red Goosefoot. Sowbane. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies swine's fennel?a1425 swine's finkle?a1450 hog's fennel1525 dog fennel1526 harstrang1562 mountain parsley1578 sow-fennel1578 sulphurwort1578 much good1597 rock parsley1597 milky parsley1640 brimstone-wort1678 marsh milkweed1787 milk parsley1787 sea sulphur-wort1807 sea sulphur-weed1850 sulphur-weed1850 sea hog's-fennel1855 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 298 It is called..in Englishe also Peucedanum, Horestrong,..Sowe fenill, and of some Sulphurwurt. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fenouil de porceau, Sow-fennell, Hogs-fennell. sow-tit n. the wood-strawberry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > strawberry > types of capron1693 hautboy1731 pine strawberry1754 Alpine1771 scarlet strawberry1786 sow-tit1788 Royal Sovereign1795 pineapple strawberry1796 scarlet1815 1788 M. Cutler Jrnl. 18 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 410 It is on a plain..covered with trees—a white oak four feet in diameter near the summit—cavity in the middle covered with sow-tits. sow-wort n. = sow-bread n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cyclamen earth applelOE dill-nuta1450 swine-bread1526 rape violet1548 cyclamen?1550 sow-bread?1550 sow's bread1558 lady's seal1592 hog's bread1607 sow-wort1838 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 708 M. Saladin found in the root of the Cyclamen Europeum, or sow wort, a peculiar bitter principle. C3. With the names of animals, etc., in the sense of ‘female’. See also sow-pig n. a. sow beaver n. ΚΠ 1959 E. Collier Three against Wilderness xxi. 210 She was an old sow beaver who could be reckoned upon to give birth to four or five sturdy kits. sow-cat n. ΚΠ 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 592 A Chat Pard (supposed to be engendred by a Leopard and a Sow-catt). 1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve iii. i St. A. For there's two ravenous Sow-Cats will Eat you. El. Your Wives you mean. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 108 I'll give that old sow-cat o' yourn a sock aside the head. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sow-child, a Female Child. sow grizzly bear n. ΚΠ 1976 Telegraph-Jrnl. (St. John, New Brunswick) 12 Aug. 12/4 A sow grizzly bear that..mauled him..was only trying to protect her young. sow-hog n. ΚΠ 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Zoch, a Sowe-hogge. sow-swine n. ΚΠ 1822 P. B. Shelley tr. J. W. von Goethe Scenes from Faust ii. 154 Upon a sow~swine, whose farrows were nine, Old Baubo rideth alone. b. sow-wasp n. dialect a queen wasp. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > queen king-wasp1724 queen1724 queen wasp1724 sow-wasp1875 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 110 In some parts of the county a reward of sixpence is offered for each sow-waps killed in the spring. C4. Genitival combinations. sow's-baby n. slang and Cant (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] swineOE hogOE grice?c1225 pig?a1425 pork?a1425 grunterc1440 gussie15.. grunting-cheat1567 snorter1601 sow's-baby1699 grumphie1786 piggy-wig1870 turf-hog1880 troughster1892 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence tester1560 half-shilling1561 teston1577 mill sixpence1592 crinklepouch1593 sixpencea1616 testrila1616 piga1640 sice1660 Simon1699 sow's-baby1699 kick1725 cripple1785 grunter1785 tilbury1796 tizzy1804 tanner1811 bender1836 lord of the manor1839 snid1839 sprat1839 fiddler1846 sixpenny bit or piece1897 zac1898 sprasey1905 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > young > sucking-pig suckerc1384 sucking-pig1553 sow's-baby1699 bonham1849 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Sow's baby, a Pig. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Sow's baby, a sucking pig. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 98 Sow's baby,..sixpence. sow's-back n. local (see quot. 1789). ΚΠ 1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom I. 107 We..bring up a level mine under the pavement of the coal, quite through the ridge, in order to level the coal upon the other side of it. Some of the Scots colliers call this a ridge, others of them call it a hirst, and some of them call it a sow's-back. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cyclamen earth applelOE dill-nuta1450 swine-bread1526 rape violet1548 cyclamen?1550 sow-bread?1550 sow's bread1558 lady's seal1592 hog's bread1607 sow-wort1838 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes (1562) 13 Take an herbe called..in Englishe sowes breade. ΚΠ a1400 Stockholm Med. MS. f. 198 Sowesthystyl, labrum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sown.2 Now dialect. A drain; a channel or run of water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > channel for conveyance of water water leatOE water lade1224 leat1279 watergang1293 sow1316 trough1398 wissinga1400 lanec1420 waterway1431 water leasow1440 watercoursea1450 fleam1523 lead1541 cut1548 aqueducta1552 lake1559 strand1565 race1570 channel1581 watergauge1597 gout1598 server1610 carriage1669 runnel1669 aquage1706 shoot1707 tewel1725 run1761 penstock1763 hulve1764 way-gang1766 culvert1774 flume1784 shute1790 pentrough1793 raceway1793 water carriage1793 carrier1794 conductor1796 water carrier1827 penchute1875 chute1878 by-cut1883 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > ditch dikec893 gripa1000 ditch1045 fosselOE water-furrowlOE sow1316 furrowc1330 rick1332 sewer1402 gripplec1440 soughc1440 grindle1463 sheugh1513 syre1513 rain?1523 trench1523 slough1532 drain1552 fowsie?1553 thorougha1555 rean1591 potting1592 trink1592 syver1606 graft1644 work1649 by-ditch1650 water fence1651 master drain1652 rode1662 pudge1671 gripe1673 sulcus1676 rhine1698 rilling1725 mine1743 foot trench1765 through1777 trench drain1779 trenchlet1782 sunk fence1786 float1790 foot drain1795 tail-drain1805 flow-dike1812 groopa1825 holla1825 thorough drain1824 yawner1832 acequia madre1835 drove1844 leader1844 furrow-drain1858 1316 in W. H. Stevenson Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 88 Predicti Adam et socii sui gutturam, que dicitur ‘le sowe’,..reparabunt. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 359 A kind of ocre..falls to the bottom of the chanels of all..mineral springs, whether sowes or others. 1670 W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 133 All spaws, whether vitrioline from sowes or aluminous. 1709 R. Thoresby Diary (1830) II. 50 Both days entirely spent with labourers, directing and overseering the sows to drain water. 1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 5 Owr hill an' knowe, thro' seugh an' sowe, Comes tiftan many o' couple. 1824– in Yorkshire and Cumberld. glossaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sown.3 rare. An act of sowing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] sowing1362 sowa1400 sation?1440 semination1531 seeding1541 seedness1549 seedage1610 sature1657 insemination1658 grass seeding1823 semence1859 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6378 He þam ledd..And fand þam fode in þair nede, Wit-vten ani sau [Fairf. saw] o sede. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). sown.4 Obsolete exc. dialect. A blow or stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow dintc897 swengOE shutec1000 kill?c1225 swipc1275 stroke1297 dentc1325 touchc1325 knock1377 knalc1380 swapc1384 woundc1384 smitinga1398 lush?a1400 sowa1400 swaipa1400 wapc1400 smita1425 popc1425 rumbelowc1425 hitc1450 clope1481 rimmel1487 blow1488 dinga1500 quartera1500 ruska1500 tucka1500 recounterc1515 palta1522 nolpc1540 swoop1544 push1561 smot1566 veny1578 remnant1580 venue1591 cuff1610 poltc1610 dust1611 tank1686 devel1787 dunching1789 flack1823 swinge1823 looder1825 thrash1840 dolk1861 thresh1863 mace-blow1879 pulsation1891 nosebleeder1921 slosh1936 smackeroo1942 dab- a1400 Sir Eglamour 317 Syr Egyllamowre hys swerde owt drowe, And to the yeant he gafe a sowe, And blyndyd hym in that tyde. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sown.5 Scottish. rare. 1. A bride's outfit of clothes; a trousseau. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > wedding > bride's clothes sow1806 trousseau1833 bridalwear1850 1806 W. M. Morison Decisions Court of Session XXV. 10436 Andrew Littlejohn pursues the Duchess of Monmouth her curator for payment of a taylor-account taken off by the Duchess for her marriage sow. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Addenda Sou, sowe, a bride's outfit or braws... This term is now used only by the fisher-folk of the N.E. of Scot. from Nairn to Buckie. 2. A burial garment; a shroud. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud sheetc1000 sendala1300 sudaryc1380 winding-clotha1400 winding-sheetc1420 kellc1425 sindonc1500 shroud1570 shrouding sheet1576 cerement1604 church cloth1639 socking-sheet1691 death cloth1699 sow1763 windinga1825 burial-cloth1876 negligée1927 1763 ‘T. Insulanus’ Treat. Second Sight 18 The same girl died of a fever, and as there was no linen in the place but what was unbleached, it was made use of for her sowe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). sowv.1α. Old English–Middle English sawan, Middle English sæwæn, Middle English sawen, Middle English say (Scottish), Middle English schau (Scottish), Middle English schaw (Scottish), Middle English schawe (Scottish), Middle English sewen, Middle English zawen, Middle English (1500s Scottish) sau, Middle English–1500s sawe, Middle English– saw (Scottish and northern). c825– [see examples in B]. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 147 Hie hiden wepende and sewende.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 214 Huo þanne ssolde erye and zawe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6839 Your land yee sal sau seuen yeir.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxii. 147 Þe folk.. sawez na land.c1440 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 250 Alsmekill land as a celdr of atis will schawe.c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 906 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 26 Prechand & sawand godis sed.c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 133 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 308 To schau his seiyde. ▸ ?a1505 R. Henryson Against Hasty Credence 41 in Poems (1981) 165 O wicket tung, sawand dissentioun.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diiv/2 To Sawe corne, seminare.1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise Epist. f. 3 To sau..pernicious heresie.c1639 W. Mure Psalmes cvii. 37 in Wks. (1898) II. 166 The feilds they saw.1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 159 Hemp-seed I saw thee.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 202 They..might be for sawing the craft wi' aits. β. Middle English soghe, Middle English souin, Middle English souwen, Middle English sowen, Middle English sowyn, Middle English–1600s sowe, 1500s soue, 1500s– sow, 1700s sew. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 To sowen þe holie sed.a1250 Prov. Ælfred in Old Eng. Misc. 108 His sedes to sowen [v.r. souin].1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10259 Ne þat bailif..ne soffrede hom nower come, To sowe.1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 59 I wol souwen hit my-self. ▸ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 3 He that sowith, goth out to sowe his seed.c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 67 In þat cete my saȝes soghe alle aboute.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 466/1 Sowyn corne or oþer sedys, semino, sero.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 725/2 I sowe corne.1532 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 405 Whatsoever man..shall..soue any varyaunce.1559 Queen Elizabeth I in R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Eliz. (1630) i. 32 To sow Religion.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 49 When to sowe the Corn. 2. Past tense. a. Strong Old English seawu, Old English–Middle English seow, Old English–1600s (1700s dialect) sew, Middle English seeuȝh, Middle English seew, Middle English segh, Middle English seuȝ, Middle English siew, Middle English sue, Middle English 1600s sewe, Middle English–1500s seu, 1800s shewe (Scottish); plural Old English seowan, Old English seowon, Old English seowun, Old English sewon, Middle English seowe, Middle English seowen, Middle English sew, Middle English sewen, Middle English sowen, Middle English–1600s sewe. c825 [see sense 2a]. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 39 Ðe fiond,..seðe sawes vel seawu, ða is diowl.971 Blickl. Hom. 3 Se Halga Gast seow þæt clæne sæd.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 A riche mon ferde ut and seow.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 151 [He] siew þo on wowe.c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 151 Þe sed þat he sew.c1250 Hymn in Trin. Coll. Hom. 256 Þe holi gost hire on þe seuȝ.c1275 Moral Ode 23 in Old Eng. Misc. 59 Hwenne alle men repen schule þat heo ear seowe.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8048 Hym þat þis child on me sew.c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 259 God repiþ many þingis þat he sue not.c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. lxxiv. 43 She brouhte the greyn..and seew it.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. ix. 47 His fader eyrit and sew ane peice of feild.1565 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 244 Because I seu no winter corne ther.a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 59 Wee sewe nothinge but onely our in-field.a1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1803) 105 I sew..my corn. b. Weak.α. Middle English sawit, Middle English sceued, Middle English (1800s Scottish) sawed. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 25 Ofer-geseawu vel geseawde.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xix. 21 Þæt ðu ne gesaudesd.] a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21226 O godds word he sceued þe sede.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 12323 (heading) How þe quete multiplied at ihesus sawed.1820 W. Scott Monastery II. i. 15 About the last barley ye sawed. β. Middle English sowid, Middle English sowide, 1500s– sowed, 1600s sowd. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxvi. 12 Isaac forsothe sowide in that loond.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xi. 10 Where thou sowedest thy sede.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xcj The Arrians..sowed abroade their opinions.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 358 He..sowd with Starrs the Heav'n. 3. Past participle. a. Strong.α. Old English gesauen, Old English gisauen, Old English–Middle English gesawen, Old English–1500s sawen, Middle English saȝin, Middle English sauen, Middle English saun, Middle English sauun, Middle English sawing (Scottish), Middle English sawyn (Scottish), Middle English sawyne (Scottish), Middle English sewe, Middle English y-zawe, Middle English (1500s Scottish) sawin, Middle English (1800s Scottish and northern) sawn, 1500s saw (Scottish), 1500s–1600s sawne (Scottish). c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark iv. 15 Seðe ymb woeg ðer bið gesauen [Rushw. gisawen] word.971 Blickl. Hom. 133 Þa wæs heora lar sawen.a1300 Cursor Mundi 28174 O strif oft haue i sauun þe sede.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 255 Yef hit ys hol oþer aboue y-zawe [Fr. sursemée].c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 445 Vile sede of man with syn sawen.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 420 A man þat had lande to be sawen.c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 203 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 310 Þare he saw sawyne il seide.1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1226 Feill off that kyn in Scotland than was sawyn.1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 8 In fragill flesche ȝour fekill seid is saw.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eiv/1 Sawen, satus.c1629 W. Mure Sonn. iv, in Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 302 If once the seed of true Repentance sawne.1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Sawn, sown as grain. β. Middle English i-sowe, Middle English i-sowen, Middle English sowe, Middle English sowun, Middle English y-sowe, Middle English y-sowen, Middle English–1600s sowen, Middle English–1600s sowne, Middle English– sown. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1129 Þar newe sedes beoþ isowe.c1330 Arth. & Merl. 4537 (Kölbing) No corn no was ysowe.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xxvii. 16 If..the feelde is sowun.c1440 Pallad. on Husb. i. 165 Rie of whete ysowen wul vp growe.?c1450 Songs, Carols, etc. (1907) 81 The sede of synne so thyke ys sowe.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vi That..styffe grounde..wold be sowen with byg.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. H7 True Loues are often sown.1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Proverbs xi–x 29 Some is sowne before others,..some is sowen after others.1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶¶1v The Precepts..are sown so very thick.1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 353 A furrow which has been newly sown.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 23 Wheat sown in the spring lives but six months. b. Weak Middle English i-sowed, Middle English sowid, Middle English 1600s– sowed, 1500s sowd, 1600s–1700s sow'd. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vi. 34 I haue..I-sowed his seed.1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xx. 5 This worst place, that may not be sowid.1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 53 The house of blessed Gods,..All sowd with glistring stars.1656 A. Wright Five Serm. 126 The seed sowed in good ground.1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 119 Your corn should be sowed on broad ridges.1844 S. Wilberforce Hist. Protestant Episc. Church Amer. (1846) 63 It was ploughed and sowed. Signification. 1. intransitive or absol. To perform the action of scattering or depositing seed on or in the ground so that it may grow. Also figurative and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow [verb (intransitive)] sowc825 c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxv. 5 Ða sawað in tearum, in gefian hie reopað. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 24 Ðu hripes ðer ðu ne sawes. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 26 Behealdað heofonan fuglas, forþam þe hig ne sawað ne hig ne ripað. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 131 Þe ðe saweð on blescunge he scal mawen of blescunge. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1039 Hit wes isayd..Þat mon schal eryen & sowe, Þar he weneþ after god mowe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5003 Heo tileden heo seowen [c1300 Otho sewen] heo repen heo meowen. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 6 Al þat euere hulpen him to heren or to sowen. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 15 When I should saw, and wantyd seyde. c1500 God speed the Plough (Skeat) 2 As I me walked ouer feldis wide When men began to Ere and to Sowe. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 30v As thou hast reaped where an other hath sowen. 1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶viijv For as men vse to sow with the hand and not with the whole sacke. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxxiii. 404 The birds..who neither sow nor reap. 1687 P. Ayres Lyric Poems (1906) 306 [I] Plough water, sow on rocks, and reap the wind. 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook viii, in Poems (new ed.) 57 Hae ye been mawin, When ither folk are busy sawin? 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 623 For a late summer and autumn crop, sow in the end of February. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies ii. 195 The pathsides where He has sown. 2. a. transitive. To scatter seed on or upon (land, etc.) in order that it may grow; to supply with seed. Also, to sow (land) to (a crop). Cf. put v. 31b, plant v. 5d. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow land sowc825 seedlOE seed1834 c825 Vesp. Psalter cvi. 37 [Hie] seowun lond. c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxiii Swa hwa swa wille sawan westmbære land. c1000 Ælfric Leviticus xix. 19 Ne saw þu þinne æcyr mid gemengedum sæde. a1250 Prov. Ælfred 123 Þey o mon ahte huntseuenti Acres, and he hi hadde isowen alle myd reade golde. And þat gold greowe [etc.]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10195 Þe king þo..vorbed þat me ne ssolde non of is lond sowe. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cvi. 37 Þai sew feldis and þai plantid vyners. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xlvii. 23 Takith seedis, and sowith feeldis, that ȝe mowen han lyuelodis. 1456–70 in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1875) XII. 26/2 The lardis of Meldrum has gart eyre and saw owr said landis of Canty. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hi After that he tempereth it with dong, than eareth it, soweth it, and haroweth it. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44v When you meane to let your ground lye againe for Meddowe or Pasture, your best is to sowe it with Oates. 1660 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 158 I shall want a little hay dust to sow the holes in the parsnage yard. 1735 S. Johnson tr. J. Lobo Voy. Abyssinia 47 They neither Sow their Lands, nor improve them by any kind of Culture. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 298 Cost and Profit of Clearing and Sowing with Wheat 10 Acres of Intervale Land. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 177 In a field of eleven acres,..the whole was sowed with barley. 1939 Sun (Baltimore) 4 July 16/2 There will be no possibility of spreading the galls to land that is sown to wheat or rye. 1972 Morning Star 4 Jan. 4/1 This was cattle-breeding country, with a dairy produce industry and with only about 75,000 acres sown to grain. b. To strew or sprinkle (land, etc.) with something as in the sowing of seed. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (a surface) with something sticka1350 setc1386 ficche1413 sprinkle?1518 scatter1590 sow1611 spatter1647 shower1798 1611 Bible (King James) Judges ix. 45 And Abimelech..beat downe the citie and sowed it with salt. View more context for this quotation 1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 113 If once in four or five years you sow it with soot, it will increase it very much. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert x, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. II. 263 The whole mad crew..will return with fire and sword to burn down Constantinople, and sow with salt the place where it stood. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. x. iv. 177 He urged on the horses—he sowed the road with gold. c. Of seed: To be sufficient for (a certain area). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > be sufficient seed for area sowc1440 c1440 [see α. forms]. 1685 W. Penn Further Acct. Pennsylvania 7 The Land requires less seed: Three Pecks of Wheat sow an Acre. 1761 Descr. of S. Carolina 70 About a Gallon of Indian Corn sows an Acre. 3. To cover or strew (a place, etc.) thickly with (also †of) something. Chiefly in past participle: Thickly strewn or dotted with something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter (a surface) with something > thickly sowc1400 lard1543 bepeps1622 spottle1839 (a) (b)a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 124 [It] sowes the Court with starres.1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 88 We..made the place so hot for 'em, and sowed the ground so thick with their dead Bodies.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxx. 99 Whirl the ungarner'd sheaf afar, And sow the sky with flying boughs. View more context for this quotationc1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. v. 75 This corowne is ful sowen of precious stones. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 18284 Withe lesyngs, (who lyst know,) vp and downe it is y-sowe. c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 288 They thenne departed,..& fond in theire way the feldes sowen with sarasyns deed. c1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad (1887) vi. 92 When..he leaves the conquered field Sown with his slaughters. 1659 J. Dryden Heroique Stanza's xiv, in E. Waller et al. Three Poems 4 Thick as the Galaxy with starr's is sown. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 132 Beyond that, there is hardly any thing to be found but Desarts sowed with stones. 1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 52 All this sea is sown thick with sands and shoals. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 3 For all the sloping pasture murmur'd sown With happy faces and with holiday. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 59 A close-set robe of jasmine sown with stars. 4. a. To scatter or deposit (seed) on or in the ground, etc., for growth, usually by the action of the hand; to place or put (seed) in the ground; to plant (a crop) in this way.to sow one's wild oats: see to sow one's wild oats at wild oat n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] sowc1000 besowc1175 inseminate1623 to put in1657 sprain1744 shed1770 to get in1771 seminate1796 broadcast1807 seed1814 c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 22 Genim tuncersan sio þe self weaxeð & mon ne sæwð. a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 262 Beana sawan. a1250 Prov. Ælfred 93 Þat..þe cheorl beo in fryþ his sedes to sowen. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 139 Sedes þat were i-sowe fordried in þe erþe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12325 O quete a littel sede, Apon þe feld he-self it seu. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xiii. 15 The letuse in this moone is so to sowe. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. viiv It is necessary to shewe how all maner of corne shuld be sowen. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 14 Cleane rie that sowes, the better crop mowes. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xx. 186 The want they have of bread, is countervailed with the rootes they sowe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 49 When to turn The fruitful Soil, and when to sowe the Corn. View more context for this quotation 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Feb. vii. 50 They sow [horse-beans] first Broad-cast over the Ground, and then plow them in: Thus, as we call it, being sown under Furrow. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 681 Sow spinach; earth up celery and broccoli. 1850 J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 2) ii. ii. 206 He is a husbandman and about to sow the crops which are to be his sustenance. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 21 We sowed and planted Wall-flowers and Stone-crop upon it. b. transferred with reference to fish, bacilli, etc. ΚΠ 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 42 See..how gluttony, and a desire to please a dainty tooth, have devised means to sow fish, and to stock the sea with strange bread. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 169 As far back as the time of Rondelet the art of ‘sowing’ these molluscs [sc. oysters] was known. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. viii. 148 When [the plague bacillus is] sown on blood serum.., an abundant, moist, yellowish-grey growth is formed. c. Military. To lay or ‘plant’ (an explosive mine); spec. to drop (mines, etc.) by aircraft into the sea or otherwise. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > use mines and explosives [verb (transitive)] > mine > lay (mines) sow1939 1939 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Nov. 8/2 In the last conflict the Germans sowed 44,000 mines, 11,000 of them in British home waters. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 1/5 After they have dropped their first flares they remain over the target area, keeping it marked by sowing more flares. 1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xiv. 82 Mines were sown in the tracks of vehicles, where other vehicles might be expected to follow. 1974 Times 18 Apr. 1/3 A lot of anti-personnel mines sown on the canal banks have slipped into the water. 1979 J. Barnett Backfire is Hostile! xiii. 135 Twenty-four Tu-16 Badgers began..sowing at forty-two thousand feet. 5. a. Used with seed (and some other terms) in transferred and figurative senses. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] sow971 mothera1425 author1598 origin1640 to be at the bottom of1650 principle1650 originate1653 inchoate1654 originize1657 (a) (b)c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 534 Gif we eow þa gastlican sæd sawaþ, hwonlic biþ þæt we eowere flæsclican þing ripon.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5071 Þatt dæþess laþe sed Þatt defless æfre sawenn..Inn ure sawless wille.a1225 Juliana 74 Ant reope we of þat ripe sed þat we seowen.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21226 In all þe stedes quar he yede, O godds word he sceued þe sede.a1400–50 Alexander 4404 To sawe emang þir simpill men sedis of debate.c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 203 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 310 Þare he saw sawyne il seide, to distroy it he cane hyme spede.a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 137 in Poems (1981) 115 The seid of lufe was sawin in my face.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hi To haue greate profyte and encrease of our sede, that we haue so sowen for his loue.1576 A. Fleming tr. Solon in Panoplie Epist. 194 I am in belief (I may peraduenture sowe my seede in the sande) that [etc.].1648 Hunting of Fox 14 The tares of sedition which these envious men had sowen.1813 W. Coxe Mem. Kings of Spain I. *29 This celebrated act..sowed the germ of future wars.1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1877) II. vii. 30 In all this the seeds of the Conquest were sowing.971 Blickl. Hom. 3 Se Halga Gast seow þæt clæne sæd on þone unbesmitenan innoþ. c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 445 He was geten..Of vile sede of man with syn sawen. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 189 Than suld..nocht sa mekle bastard seid [be] Throw out this cuntrie sawin. b. Contrasted with reap in figurative uses.See also quots. c1000 and a1225 at sense 5a. The usage (as in sense 1) is derived from various Biblical passages, e.g. Hos. viii. 7, Galat. vi. 7. For similar examples with mow, see mow v.1 1c. ΚΠ 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Pref. Epist. Jerome vii. 71/1 Aggeus,..the whiche sewe in teres that he repe in ioy. c1421 26 Pol. Poems 100 Eche dedly synne is a dedly knyf; For he shal repe þat he sewe. c1421 26 Pol. Poems 113 Man..Makeþ moche of hym~self, sayþe al is oures, And repeth þat he neuere ne sewe. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 185 Quhat so euer a man saues the same sal he raipe, for quha sawes in his flesh he sal sheer corruption of the flesh. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 381 From Ireland then comes Yorke againe, To reape the haruest which that Coystrill sowed. 1828 C. Lamb Char. Late Elia in Elia 2nd Ser. 226 He sowed doubtful speeches, and reaped plain, unequivocal hatred. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iii. 74 What Darkness sowed the Light shall reap. 6. figurative. To disseminate or spread; to endeavour to propagate or extend. In various contexts. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publish or spread abroad [verb (transitive)] sowc888 blowc1275 dispeple1297 to do abroadc1300 fame1303 publyc1350 defamea1382 publisha1382 open?1387 proclaima1393 slandera1400 spreada1400 abroachc1400 throwc1400 to give outa1425 promote?a1425 noisec1425 publicc1430 noisec1440 divulgea1464 to put outc1475 skail1487 to come out witha1500 bruit1525 bruita1529 to bear out1530 divulgate1530 promulgate1530 propale?1530 ventilate1530 provulgate1535 sparple1536 sparse1536 promulge1539 disperse1548 publicate1548 forthtell1549 hurly-burly?1550 propagate1554 to set abroada1555 utter1561 to set forth1567 blaze1570 evulgate1570 scatter1576 rear?1577 to carry about1585 pervulgate1586 celebrate?1596 propalate1598 vent1602 evulge1611 to give forth1611 impublic1628 ventilate1637 disseminate1643 expose1644 emit1650 to put about1664 to send abroad1681 to get abroad1688 to take out1697 advertise1710 forward1713 to set abouta1715 circulate1780 broadcast1829 vent1832 vulgate1851 debit1879 float1883 the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > specific something immaterial sowc888 forspreada1300 breathea1425 diffusea1425 transfusec1425 sparkle?1533 seminate1535 enlarge1553 propagate1554 disperse1576 proseminate1619 disseminate1643 infusea1672 overpass1679 to set abroad1688 vulgate1851 (a) (b)c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care 356 Aworpen mon..on ælce tid saweð wrohte.c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋642 Þe synne of hem þat sowen and maken discord.c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 91 Whilk amanges neghburghs discordes to sawe makes hym bisy.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiiiv Measure and I wyll neuer be deuydyd For no dyscorde that any man can sawe.1562 N. Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 77 (note) The seditious personis sawis schisme and diuisioun.1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 83 Sathan..To rais his kingdome tentation did sau Into þe hairtis of men in all degrie.1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxxvii. 493 Let not the evil one..sow this jealousie in your heart.1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. xiv. 327 A Counsel which would sow Division in the contrary Party.a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. iii. 49 Those who teach false doctrines to sew dissension amongst them.1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. xi. 76 Between the best of Peoples and the best of Restorer-Kings, they would sow grudges.1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. 106 He..attempted to sow discord in his brother's Council.(c)1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cvx. 137 Also there were wordes sowen through all the towne, howe [etc.].1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. v Martin Luther.., who soweth newe opinions in Germany.a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 30 Some ill-disposed persons..tooke occasion to sowe mutinous discourses.1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 24 He sow'd a slander in the common ear.1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iv. i. 105 Who sow'd this fancy here among the people?(d)1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xvii. sig. Jiij The necessities, which fortune soweth among menne that be mortall.1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. i. 157 We are to Cure such sorrowes, not to sowe 'em. View more context for this quotation1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 405/2 The antiquarian spirit..may have been sown in you among those wrecks of splendid mortality.1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 66 627 Can you believe..that the word of the Third Witch, ‘thou shalt be King Hereafter,’ sows the murder in Macbeth's heart?c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxvii Se eorðlica anweald næfre ne sæwð þa cræftas, ac..gadrað unðeawas. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 155 Ure helend saweð his holie word hwile þurh his haȝen muð hwile þurh his apostles. 13.. Know Thyself 58 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 131 His grace is so wide isowe. c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 404 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 219 Quhen þe apostolis had al-quhare In þat land sawyne goddis lare. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Prol. f. 3v The word, that is plantit or sawin amongis ȝow. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 898 Þe richt meanis..Ouir all to haue the Gospell sawin. 1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 157 Light is sowen for the righteous, and ioy for the vpright in heart. 1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 72/1 Their voyage to Greece and Italy, to sow the Gospel. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] > beget sowc1250 getc1300 begeta1325 engenderc1330 conceivec1350 makea1382 wina1400 fathera1425 rutc1450 tread1594 sirea1616 engraff1864 c1250 Long Life 33 in Old Eng. Misc. 158 Of fole fulþe þu art isowe, Wormes fode þu schald beo. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8048 Y ne sey..Hym þat þis child on me sew. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3424 Þe gode childre geten of grace..whenne þei coom wel is knowe þat þei of goddes grace are sowe. 8. a. To scatter after the manner of seed; to sprinkle, throw or spread about, in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > scatter broadcast shedc1000 sprengeOE discatterc1330 shatterc1330 sowa1387 spilla1400 shadec1425 sparklec1440 scatter?c1450 distribute?c1510 sparse?1550 to cast seed1577 bescatter1859 to sow, scatter, throw, etc. broadcast1874 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 125 Abymelech..destroyed þat place..and sewe salt þerynne, for þe lond schulde na more bere fruit and corne. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 339 Also powder of erþe of þat lond i-sowe in oþer londes vseþ awey wormes. c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 12920 Many a knyȝt was ouer-throwen, Her bodies lay thik sawen. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. viii. 11 b His child dismembred and abrode ysowe. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xi. 38 What avayleth evermore to sowe The precyous stones amonge gruntynge hogges? 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. x. 28 Armouris, suerdis, speris and scheildis, I sall do saw and strow our all the feyldis. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xv. 38 The Gall-bladder hath received very many small Passages, furnished with sundry little twigs, sowed up and down in the Liver. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World xii. 373 They were astonish'd to see my people so thin sown, our scanty number not making any manner of show. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. i. 8 With lank hair very thinly sown upon a head which [etc.]. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 60 Not sowing hedgerow texts and passing by, Nor dealing goodly counsel from a height. b. To distribute or disperse. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] to-spreada1000 spread?c1225 sowc1350 to-scattera1382 diffund?a1425 dilate1430 disparklec1449 diffuse?a1475 provulgate1535 disperse1576 distract1600 disseminate1603 protracta1658 unroll1813 c1350 Leg. Rood (1871) 90 And sethin als wide als þai er saun Has no iew hous of his awyn. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Zech. x. 9 Y shal sowe hem in peplis. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 685 Bot thai prophetis so thyn ar sawin, That thair in erd now nane is knawin. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. x. 9 I wil sowe them amonge the people. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > draw or drain of blood yeteOE spilla1125 shed?c1225 outbleedc1475 dispill1522 sow1535 broach1573 exsanguinate1849 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 303 Wemen..sall nocht..draw abak quhair mekill blude is sawin. Derivatives sowed adj. /səʊd/ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [adjective] > sown sown1578 sowed1733 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 205 This Mischief happens oftner to the latter sowed Wheat. ˈsowing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [adjective] sowingc1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xiii. 18 Therfore heere ȝe the parable of the sowynge man. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. x. 180 Moveless do they seem to you? Why, so is the earth to the sowing husbandman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sowv.2 northern and Scottish. 1. transitive. To affect (a person) with pain; to pain or grieve sorely. Usually with sore. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)] heavyc897 pineeOE aileOE sorryeOE traya1000 sorrowOE to work (also do) (a person) woeOE angerc1175 smarta1200 to work, bake, brew balec1200 derve?c1225 grieve?c1225 sitc1225 sweam?c1225 gnawc1230 sughc1230 troublec1230 aggrievea1325 to think sweama1325 unframea1325 anguish1340 teen1340 sowa1352 distrainc1374 to-troublea1382 strain1382 unglad1390 afflicta1393 paina1393 distressa1400 hita1400 sorea1400 assayc1400 remordc1400 temptc1400 to sit (or set) one sorec1420 overthrow?a1425 visit1424 labour1437 passionc1470 arraya1500 constraina1500 misgrievea1500 attempt1525 exagitate1532 to wring to the worse1542 toil1549 lament1580 adolorate1598 rankle1659 try1702 to pass over ——1790 upset1805 to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823 to put (a person) through it1855 bludgeon1888 to get to ——1904 to put through the hoop(s)1919 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with anguish or torment tintreghec1175 torment1297 raimc1300 pinse?c1335 grindc1350 sowa1352 pang1520 rack1562 torture1598 throea1616 pincer1620 excruciate1623 thumbscrew1771 a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) v. 12 When he sailed in þe Swin it sowed him sare. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6568 Mikel i haf trauaild for yow..þat suilk a godd all honurs now, þat will yow her-after sare sow. a1400–50 Alexander 2313 And þai said, soure suld him sowe bot he þe cite ȝeld. c1480 (a1400) St. Vincent 292 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 267 Thinkand he mycht na payne mare do til hyme to sow hyme sare. 2. intransitive. To be painful; to thrill or tingle with pain or exertion. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > prick or tingle > suffer pricking or tingling tinklea1382 tinglea1425 sowc1425 dindle1483 pricklea1661 prinkle1721 prick1850 pringle1889 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 6224 Qwhen he a qwhile had prekyt þar, And sum of þaim he gert sow sare. 1438 tr. Bk. Alexander Great (1831) (Bann) 87 The sydis of sum may sowe full sair. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 258 Thair scharp schutting maid sydis for till sow. a1586 in J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 201 Scho gars me murne,..And with sair straiks scho gars me sow. 1885 F. Gordon Pyotshaw 297 If that bit race hisna set my lugs a' sooin'. 3. absol. To produce a tingling sensation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > prick or tingle prickOE sow1796 mirr1866 tingle1872 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 346 To Soo, to pain the hand, in striking with a hammer or beetle: to jar. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby It soues up my arm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c725n.21316n.3a1400n.4a1400n.51763v.1c825v.2a1352 |
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