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Sow-thistle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Sonchus. The downy sow-thistle is of the genus Andryala.

Sow-thistle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop. In New England, farmers begin to sow in April. They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. Psalms 126:1 .

2. SOW , for sew, is not in use. [ See Sew .]

Sow-thistle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense sowed; participle passive sowed or sown. [Latin sevi. This word is probably contracted.]

2. To scatter on ground, for the purpose growth and the production of a crop; as, to sow good seed; to sow a bushel of wheat or rye to the acre; to sow oats, clover or barley; to sow seed in drills, or to sow it broad cast. Oats and flax should be sown early in the spring.

3. To scatter seed over for growth; as, to sow ground or land; to sow ten or a hundred acres in a year.

4. To spread or to originate; to propagate; as, to sow discord. Born to afflict my Marcia's family, and sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.

5. To supply or stock with seed. The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.

6. To scatter over; to besprinkle. He sow'd with stars the heaven. Morn now sow'd the earth with orient pearl.