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Webster 1913 Edition
Oversow
Oˊver-sow′
,Verb.
T.
[AS.
ofersawan
.] To sow where something has already been sown.
[R.]
His enemy came and
oversowed
cockle among the wheat. Matt. xiii. 25. (Douay Version).
Definition 2024
oversow
oversow
English
Verb
oversow (third-person singular simple present oversows, present participle oversowing, simple past oversowed, past participle oversown)
- To sow where something has already been sown.
- Matthew 13:25 (Douay-Rheims version):
- But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
- 1996, C. P. Peacock, Improving Goat Production in the Tropics (ISBN 0855982691), page 115:
- […] it is possible to oversow the area with improved forages. […] Vigorous species must be used to oversow the area […]
- Matthew 13:25 (Douay-Rheims version):
References
- oversow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913