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unˈsown, ppl. a.
Also 4 unsowe, -sawe.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. OE. unsáwen (of land), ON. úsáinn, and prec.]
1. Of seed: Not sown; left without being sown. Also of vegetation: Growing without having been sown.
c1374Chaucer Former Age 10 Corn vp-sprong vnsowe of mannes hond. 15..in Thynne Animadv., etc. (1875) 88 Wher the seyd of god is vnsawn. 1539–40N.C. Wills (Surtees) 169 All my corne sowen and unsowen. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 85 Sowe lintels ye may, and peason gray. Keepe white vnsowne, till more be knowne. 1626Bacon Sylva §546 Mushromes..come vp so hastily; As in a Night; And yet they are Vnsowne. 1693Dryden Ovid's Met. i. 138 The Flow'rs un-sown, in Fields and Meadows reign'd. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. iv. 10 The crops remained unsown this year.
2. Of land: Not supplied with seed.
c1400Gamelyn 83 He þought on his landes þat lay vnsawe. a1513Fabyan Chron. iv. lxxv. 53 The grounde was vntylled and vnsowen, Wherof ensued great scarsytie. 1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 5 Duryng all suche time as the same landes shalbe and remayne vnsowen. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xxiv. 147 The trampling which they keepe about trees, medowes, and vnsowne places. 1626Bacon Sylva §482 If the Ground lie fallow, and vnsowne. 1725Pope Odyssey ix. 143 Nor knows the soil to feed the fleecy care,..But uninhabited, untill'd, unsown It lies. 1730Lyttelton Epist. to Pope 28 Unhappy Italy!.. Her cities [are] desert and her fields unsown. 1842Tennyson Dora 71 Dora..went her way Across the wheat, and sat upon a mound That was unsown. |