sow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
2. v. To spread (land, for example) with seed.
3. v. To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over.
4. v. To propagate; disseminate: sow rumors.
5. v. To scatter seed for growing.
6. idiom. oats To indulge in dissolute or licentious behavior, especially to be sexually promiscuous, when young. Usually used of men.
7. n. An adult female hog.
8. n. The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
9. n. A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
10. n. The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To scatter, as seed upon the earth, for the purpose of growth; plant by strewing.
2. To scatter seed over for growth; supply or stock with seed.
3. To scatter over; besprinkle; spangle: as, a velvet pall sown with golden bees.
4. To spread abroad; cause to extend; disseminate; propagate: as, to sow discord.
5. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop.
6. n. An adult female hog; the female of swine.
7. n. A sow-bug.
8. n. In metallurgy, the metal which has solidified in the common channel or feeder through which the molten iron flows from the blast-furnace into a series of parallel grooves or furrows, which are the “pigs” appertaining to the sow, and the iron from which bears the name of pigiron, or simply pig: used also of other metals.
9. n. A military engine consisting of a movable roof arranged to protect men handling a battering-ram. Compare vinea, also cat and cat-castle.
10. Female: applied to fish: as, a sow hake. See sow fish, under fish.
11. An obsolete spelling of sew.
12. n. In metallurgy: Same as bear, 7.

Wiktionary

1. n. A female pig.
2. n. A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
3. n. A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
4. n. derogatory, slang A contemptible woman.
5. v. transitive To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To sew. See sew.
2. n. (Zoöl.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
3. n. (Zoöl.) A sow bug.
4. n. A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
5. n. The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
6. n. A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
7. n. (Mil.) 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.
8. v. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
9. v. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
10. v. To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an adult female hog
2. v. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
3. v. place seeds in or on (the ground)
4. v. introduce into an environment