to sew. see sew.-the female of swine, or of the hog kind.-a sow bug.-a channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.-the bar of metal which remains in such a runner.-a mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.-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, or the like.-to scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. also used figuratively: to spread abroad; to propagate.-to scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. also used figuratively: to scatter over; to besprinkle.-to scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.