sew

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make, repair, or fasten by stitching, as with a needle and thread or a sewing machine: sew a dress; sew on a button.
2. v. To furnish with stitches for the purpose of closing, fastening, or attaching: sew an incision closed.
3. v. To work with a needle and thread or with a sewing machine.
4. sew up Informal To complete successfully: Our team has sewn up the championship.
5. sew up Informal To gain complete control of; monopolize.
6. sew up Informal To make sure of: campaign strategists who were trying to sew up the election results.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To unite, join, or attach by means of a thread, twine, wire, or other flexible material, with or without the aid of a needle, awl, or other tool.
2. To put together or construct, or to repair, as a garment, by means of a needle and thread.
3. n. Juice; broth; gravy; hence, a pottage; a made dish.
4. To drain dry, as land; drain off, as water.
5. In falconry, to wipe: said of a hawk that cleans its beak.
6. To ooze out.
7. n. A drain; a sewer.
8. To serve at table, as by carving, tasting, etc.
9. An obsolete spelling of sue.
10. An obsolete or dialectal preterit of sow.
11. In bookbinding, to pass the thread separately through the creased fold of each section of (an unbound book).

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
2. v. intransitive To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
3. v. obsolete, transitive To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
2. v. obsolete To follow; to pursue; to sue.
3. v. To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread.
4. v. To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up.
5. v. To inclose by sewing; -- sometimes with up.
6. v. To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
7. v. obsolete To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. fasten by sewing; do needlework
2. v. create (clothes) with cloth