sow (1), so we, suwe

[A. S. sugu, sú; cogn. with Dut. zog; Icel. syr; Dan. 80; Sw. sugga, so; O. H. Ger. sú; Ger.sau; Ir. suig: Wel. hwch (hog); Lat.sus; Gr. hus, sus.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The female of the hog kind or of swine; a female pig. 2. An insect; a milliped; the sow-bug (q. v.). II. Technically : 1. Founding : (1) The main trough leading from the tap-hole of a cupola or smelting-furnace, and from which ramify the pa ages leading to the separate molds in casting, or to the shallow ditches in the floor which receive the pigs of cast metal. (2) The piece of metal cast in this trough; an oblong ma of metal. [PIG.] *2. Mil .: A military structure of the nature of a movable covered shed, formerly used in sieges to cover and protect men who were employed in sapping and mining operations. To hare , get , or take the right (or wrong ) sow by the ear: To pitch upon the right (or wrong) person; to form a right (or wrong) conclusion. sow-bug, s. Zool.: Oniscus a sell us . *sow-drunk, a. Beastly drunk. sow-fennel, subst. [FENNEL, 8., (4), HOG's FENNEL.] sow (2), s. [SOY.] sow (1), *so we (pa.t.* sew.sowed : pa.par. * sowen , sown, * sowan ), v . t . & i. [A. S. sáwan (pa. t. seów , pa. par. sáwen ); cogn. with Dut. zaaigen : Icel. sá ; Dan.sage ; Sw.så: O. H. Ger. sáwen , sahen; Goth. sai an ; Ger. säen ; Wel.hau; Lat. sero.] A. Transitive : 1. To scatter, as seed upon the ground, for the purpose of growth; to plant by strewing. "He that soweth yede out to so we his sede."-Wycliffe Matt . xiii, 2. To scatter seed over for growth; to strew with seed; to supply or stock with seed. " Sow the fields and plant vineyards."- Psalm cvii. 37. 3. To scatter over, to besprinkle. "He sow'd with stars the heav'n, thick as a field." Milton: P. L., vii. 358. 4. To spread abroad, to di eminate, to propagate: Act of 1816, the gold coinage of England consists of gold 22 carats, is {} or 916 fine, which is called Standard gold. The value of the sovereign is deduced from the fact that 40lbs. Troy of standard gold is coined into 1,869 sovereigns. (3) A name applied to a coin formerly used in Austria, worth about £1 8s. sterling, or $6.82. south. IMG:content-1760.png:[blocks in formation]