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oversow, v.|əʊvəˈsəʊ|
[In OE. ofersáwan, f. ofer-, over- + sow v.; cf. OS. oƀarsâian, OHG. ubarsâen, all repr. late L. supersēmināre (Vulg.).]
1. trans. To sow (seed) over other seed, or a crop, previously sown. [over- 1, 8.]
c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 25 Cuom feond his and ofer⁓seow weod [superseminauit zizania] in midle þæs hwætes. 1565W. Allen in Fulke Confut. Purg. (1577) 409 It was long after ouersowen. 1582N.T. (Rhem.) Matt. xiii. 25 His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheate. 1610Boys Wks. (1629) 182 In Heaven Lucifer over-sowed Pride... In Paradise Satan over-sowed disobedience. 1887T. W. Allies Throne Fisherman 487 Enemies, who while men sleep, oversow tares upon that good seed.
2. To sow (ground) with seed in addition to some already sown. [over- 8, 20.]
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 25 Þa com his feonda sum and ofer-seow hit mid coccele on middan þam hwæte. 1616T. Adams Soul's Sickness Wks. 1861 I. 480 Whilst he sleeps, the enemy over-sows the field of his heart with tares. 1882G. F. Pentecost Out of Egypt viii. 195 The Devil..came by night and oversowed the field with tares.
3. To scatter seed over, to sow with seed. Also fig. in pa. pple.: Strewn over with something, bestrewn, besprinkled, spotted (F. parsemé). [over- 8.]
a1618Sylvester Panaretus 125 An Azure Scarf, all over⁓sow'n With Crowned Swords. 1648–60Hexham, Een Overzaeyt, ofte Gortigh vercken, an Oversowne or a Meazled Hogge. 1891G. F. X. Griffith tr. Fouard's Christ I. 303 He likened it to a land which, being once oversown, ‘produces its fruit of itself’.
4. To sow too much of (seed); to sow too much seed upon (land). [over- 27.]
1890Cent. Dict. s.v., To oversow one's wheat. |