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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)

  1. 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 []

References

  • oversow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913