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Definition of Sow
Sow
To sew. See Sew.

The female of swine, or of the hog kind.

A sow bug.

A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.

The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.

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.

To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.

To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.

To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
Joel Osteen

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Francis of Assisi

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier



Sow Translations
sow in Dutch is uitzaaien
sow in Italian is seminare
sow in Portuguese is porca
sow in Spanish is cerda


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