Definition of sow

"sow" in the noun sense

1. sow

an adult female hog

"sow" in the verb sense

1. sow, seed

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

"She sowed sunflower seeds"

2. sow

introduce into an environment

"sow suspicion or beliefs"

3. inseminate, sow, sow in

place seeds in or on (the ground

"sow the ground with sunflower seeds"

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Quotations for sow

To grease a fat sow. [ Proverb ]

Early sow, early mow. [ Proverb ]

As drunk as David's sow. [ Proverb ]

As you sow you shall reap. [ Proverb ]

He looks like a sow saddled. [ Proverb ]

To come sailing in a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

To take the wrong sow by the ear. [ Proverb ]

As you sow, you are like to reap. [ Butler ]

That which you sow you must reap. [ Proverb ]

Sow wheat in dirt and rye in dust. [ Proverb ]

Every soo (sow) to its ain trough. [ Scotch Proverb ]

If you would reap money, sow money. [ Proverb ]

A pretty pig makes an ugly old sow. [ Proverb ]

As the ancients wisely say
Have a care o' the main chance,
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow you are like to reap. [ Butler ]

The still sow eats up all the draff. [ Proverb ]

An alewive's sow is always well fed. [ Proverb ]

Right, Roger, your sow's good mutton. [ Proverb ]

Every sow deserves not a sack-posset. [ Proverb ]

He that would reap well must sow well. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make velvet of a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor.
And find a harvest-home of light. [ Horatius Bonar ]

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. [ Bible ]

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]

He that does not love a woman sucked a sow. [ Proverb ]

Sow good works and you shalt reap gladness. [ Proverb ]

It becomes her as a pack-saddle would a sow. [ Proverb ]

Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

As necessary as an old sow among young children. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. [ Proverb ]

He loves bacon well that licks the sow's breech. [ Proverb ]

Little knows the fat sow what the lean one means. [ Proverb ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]

It looks as well as a diamond necklace about a sow's neck. [ Proverb ]

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. [ Mme. De Stael ]

They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. [ Bible ]

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]

Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]

If you want a good crop, sow with your hand, and pour not out of the sack. [ Proverb ]

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. [ Bible ]

Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. [ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ]

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, capable of great improvement; and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles and impertinences. [ Sir M. Hale ]

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. [ G. D. Boardman ]

Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold. [ F. W. Robertson ]

sow in Scrabble®

The word sow is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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sow in Words With Friends™

The word sow is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Word Growth involving sow

Shorter words in sow

ow

so

Longer words containing sow

cassowaries

cassowary

leasow leasowed

leasow leasowing

leasow leasows

oversow oversowing

oversow oversown

oversow oversows

resow resowed

resow resowing

resow resown

resow resows

sowable

sowbellies

sowbelly

sowbread sowbreads

sowed leasowed

sowed resowed

sowed unsowed

sower sowers

sowing leasowing

sowing oversowing

sowing resowing

sown disown disownable

sown disown disowned

sown disown disowner disowners

sown disown disowning

sown disown disownment disownments

sown disown disowns

sown oversown

sown resown

sown undersown

sown unsown

sows leasows

sows oversows

sows resows

undersow undersown