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A female pig.

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A female bear, she-bear.

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A female guinea pig.

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A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

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A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

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A contemptible, often fat woman.

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A sowbug.

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A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

It is well to sow at least two bushels to the acre."

The bear was a sow with two cubs.

This man, I trow, has got the right sow by the ear."

Sow seeds of greenhouse and hothouse plants; also the different sorts of tender annuals; pot off those sown last month; sow cineraria for the earliest bloom; also Chinese primulas.

Together with a few other men of birth and education, he began secretly to sow the sentiments of democracy among the peasants.

In the first place there was the problem over how much spring barley to sow.

Sow also in heat mustard and cress for salads, onions for salads; tomatoes, celery to be pricked out for an early crop; and Early Horn carrot and kidney-beans on slight hotbeds.

Sow fragrant or showy annuals to flower in pots during winter; and grow on a set of decorative plants for the same object.

Mind you, this is a disk that almost does manage to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear!

Two litters are produced in one year, as pigs are usually weaned at two months old, and the sow will take the boar at from three days to a week after the pigs are removed, according to condition.

Sow seed of perpetual spinach (leaf beet) to provide a useful crop from October through until April.

He would sow a bushel of oats, he tells me; it will take no more.

Allotment Diary for Monday 12th June 2006 Back to June entries If at first you don't succeed, sow some more cauliflowers.

The opening scene is of a sow held captive in a farrowing crate.

Then we sow a mix of fescue and browntop bent, and irrigate immediately afterward to give a quick, even emergence.

The diet consists of natural plant material, for example dandelion, sow thistle, various herbs and red clover with occasional fruit.

Sow broad leaved endive and make a further sowing of curly endive.

Spent the next sixteen years in general veterinary practice being awarded the Fellowship of the RCVS for his thesis entitled Dystocia in the Sow.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Transplant to the bottom of a south wall a portion of the peas sown in pots in frames in November and January for the first crop. Sow Brussels sprouts in gentle heat for an early crop.

In the last week, sow hardy annuals in the borders, with biennials that flower the first season, as also perennials.

Sow tender annuals for succession, potting and shifting those sown at an earlier period; sow cinerarias for succession; and a few hardy annuals and tenweek stock, &c., for late crops.

In the first week, sow peas for the last crop of the season; also Longpod beans and French beans.

Sow seed of herbaceous calceolarias; shift heaths, if they require it; cut down pelargoniums past flowering, and plant the cuttings.

Sow half-hardy annuals, as Nemophila, Collinsia, Schizanthus, Rhodanthe, &c., to flower during winter.

Sow in the second and the last week, on a warm border of a light sandy soil, with an east aspect, any free-flowering hardy annuals as Silene pendula, Nemophila, &c., for planting in spring; and auricula and primula seeds in pots and boxes.

Sow a few kidney beans for an early forced crop. Expel damp, and assist the ripening of late grapes and peaches with fires during the day.

Sow a few pots of hardy annuals in a frame, or on a sheltered border, for successional spring use if required.

Sow early peas and Early Dwarf Prolific beans in the second week, for an early crop; also in frames for transplanting.

Sow Early Horn carrot; also kidney beans and radishes, on hotbeds.

Sow a few peas and beans, in case of accident to those sown in November, drawing up the soil towards the stems of those which are above ground as a protection; earth up celery; blanch endive with flower-pots; sow radishes in a very sheltered place.

The first ten days of this month will yet be time enough to sow sweet corn, beets, lettuce, beans, cucumbers and ruta-baga turnips.

Sow spinach for fall use, but not yet for the winter crop. Red top, white globe, and yellow Aberdeen turnips should now be sown; ruta-baga turnips sown last month will need thinning, and in extreme southern states they may yet be sown.

Sow seeds of sweet alyssum, candytuft, daisies, mignonette, pansies, &c. Visit the roadsides and woods for interesting plants to put in the hardy borders.

The "fox who would rob his host's hen-roost," as the old king called Louis, repaid his protector by attempting to sow discord in the ducal family of Burgundy, and then retired to the castle of Genappe in Brabant.

Annual engagements are entered into by the cultivators, under a system of pecuniary advances, to sow a certain quantity of land with poppy, and the whole produce in the form of opium is delivered to government at a fixed rate.

The sow is a prolific breeder and good mother, weighing, when mature but not fat, 450 lb - the boar averaging 600 lb, and barrows at six to eight months 350 lb.

The brood sow should be lengthy and of a prolific strain, known to milk well.

Next Theseus despatched the Crommyonian sow (or boar).

The plant should have a warm situation, and the soil should be light and well enriched; sow thinly early in April, either near a fence or wall, or in an open spot, where it will require stakes 6 to 8 ft.

On the contrary, the cardinal of Lorraine, by his question whether the Calvinists were prepared to sign the Confession of Augsburg, attempted to sow dissension between them and the Lutheran Protestants of Germany, on whose continued support they calculated.

I plough and sow and earn my food; you should do the same."

The people, he contended, were no worse off under the old monarchy than they will be in the long run under assemblies that are bound by the necessity of feeding one part of the community at the grievous charge of other parts, as necessitous as those who are so fed; that are obliged to flatter those who have their lives at their disposal by tolerating acts of doubtful influence on commerce and agriculture, and for the sake of precarious relief to sow the seeds of lasting want; that will be driven to be the instruments of the violence of others from a sense of their own weakness, and, by want of authority to assess equal and proportioned charges upon all, will be compelled to lay a strong hand upon the possessions of a part.

Having no clocks, they regard instead the face of the sky; the stars serve them for almanacs; they hunt and fish, they sow and reap in correspondence with the recurrent order of celestial appearances.

The Elizabethan wars were most injurious to industry, for men will not sow unless they hope to reap, and the very essence of military policy had been to deprive a recalcitrant people of the means of living.

The greater part of the Maremma now affords pasture to large herds of horses and half-wild cattle, but on the drier parts corn is grown, the people coming down from the hills to sow and to reap. The hill country just inland, especially near Volterra, has poor soil, largely clayey, and subject to landslips, but is rich in minerals.

If you sow unto the spirit you will of the spirit reap life everlasting.

Sow them over a period of months to avoid a glut.

My tip would be to sow green manures well in advance of their last possible sowing dates, " says Sally.

With the obvious coming betrayal of the leaders the slogan only served to sow illusions.