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▪ I. sown, ppl. a.|səʊn|
Also 6–7 sowen.
[Pa. pple. of sow v.1]
1. a. Of seed, etc.: That has been sown, freq. as distinguished from that which has grown of itself.
1578Lyte Dodoens 68 Garden or sowen Woad, brused, is good to be layde upon woundes. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xiv. 196 (Dublin ed.), Poor Slate Land, when it has borne sown St. Foin for six or seven Years,..produces Three Crops of Corn. 1795Burke Th. on Scarcity Wks. VII. 408 Neither of the sown or natural grass was there..any remainder. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. i, Fires, fevers, sown seeds, chemical mixtures. 1872C. Innes Lect. Scot. Legal Antiq. vi. 242 You will observe that made a late hay harvest compare with our sown grass.
b. With limiting term preceding.
See also new-sown s.v. new adv. 3 a.
1771Encycl. Brit. I. 62/2 The early sown pease have the best chance to produce a crop of corn, and the late sown to produce a crop of straw. 1801Farmer's Mag. Apr. 232 Some of the late sown clover wheats have been attacked by the grub. Ibid. Aug. 354 The wheat and rye (Autumn sown crops) are good every where. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 167 Our native lark,..busy upon some newly sown grass seed.
2. Of land: Furnished with seed. Also absol., esp. as contrasted with desert.
1647Hexham i, Sowne fields, gezaeyde ackeren. 1670Pettus Fodinæ Reg. 87 His fenced Parks, Medows, and sowen Fields. 1801Farmer's Mag. Jan. 94 The later sown fields are only putting forth a braird. Ibid. Apr. 228 Some of the sown lands were then but half harrowed. 1859FitzGerald Omar x, With me along some Strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) v. lviii. 328 The difference between Hejaz and Syria was the difference between the desert and the sown. 1940J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door i. 22 We had for our playground both the desert and the sown. 1957K. M. Kenyon Digging up Jericho 29 The age-long struggle of the Desert and the Sown.
▪ II. sown
obs. f. soon adv. and sound; obs. Sc. var. sun. |