sew (ew as o) (3), sewe, sowen

t. & i. [A. S. siwian; cogn. with Icel. sýja; Dan. sye; Sw.sy; O. H. Ger. siuwan, siwan; Goth. sinjan; Lat.suo; Lith. suti: Ru . shite; Sansc. siv.] A. Transitive : 1. To unite or fasten together with a needle and thread. "His cloke was sowed to his hode." Chaucer: C. Т. , 16,039. 3643 water by which such matter is carried off, the waste water of baths, wash-houses, and other domestic operations, the liquid waste product of various manufacturing operations, and, in most cases, of the greater part of the surface drainage of the area drained. In most cases the sewage of towns, ., is allowed to run to waste into some river, the sea, .; but the value of its fertilizing constituents be large establishments have adopted systems of sewing now recognized, many towns and districts and age utilization. Of these, the chief is irrigation of land especially prepared for the purpose. Attempts have also been made to produce a dry, portable manure from the sewage by treatment with cheming from a town, ., is estimated, according to icals, deposition, . The quantity of sewage pa circumstances, at about thirty gallons per head per day. " Sewage generally yields ammonia at the rate of about seven grains in a gallon."- Brande & Cox . 2. The same as SEWERAGE, 1. (q. v.). The words sewage =that which is carried off by the sewers, and Sewerage =the system of sewers of a town, are said to have been first used by Mr. James Pilbrow, F. S. A., architect, Worthing, in 1850, in a report to the Board of Works for Tottenham, Middle sex.