sow : Idioms & Phrases

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self-sowed

  • adjective satellite growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds
    self-sowed; self-seeded.
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self-sown

  • adjective satellite growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds
    self-sowed; self-seeded.
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Sow bread

  • . (Bot.) See Cyclamen.
Webster 1913

sow bug

  • noun terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow)
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Sow bug, ∨ Sowbug

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of terrestrial Isopoda belonging to Oniscus, Porcellio, and allied genera of the family Oniscidæ. They feed chiefly on decaying vegetable substances.
Webster 1913

sow in

  • verb place seeds in or on (the ground)
    sow; inseminate.
    • sow the ground with sunflower seeds
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sow one's oats

  • verb live promiscuously and self-indulgently
    sow one's oats.
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sow one's wild oats

  • verb live promiscuously and self-indulgently
    sow one's oats.
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Sow thistle

  • noun any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
    milk thistle.
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  • AS. sugepistel (Bot.), a composite plant (Sonchus oleraceus) said to be eaten by swine and some other animals.
  • Sonchus oleraceus.
Webster 1913

Timber sow

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Timber worm, below. Bacon.
Webster 1913

To sow one's wild oats

  • . See under Oat.
Webster 1913