Definition of Oversow

1. v. t. To sow where something has already been sown.

Definition of Oversow

1. Verb. To sow where something has already been sown. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oversow

1. to sow over [v OVERSOWED, OVERSEWN or OVERSOWN, OVERSOWING, OVERSOWS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversow

oversoften
oversoftened
oversoftening
oversoftens
oversoftly
oversolar
oversold
oversolicitous
oversoon
oversorrow
oversorrowed
oversorrowing
oversorrows
oversoul
oversouls
oversow (current term)
oversowed
oversowing
oversown
oversows
overspan
overspanned
overspans
overspeak
overspeaking
overspeaks
overspecialise
overspecialised
overspecialises
overspecialising

Literary usage of Oversow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1810)
"They had just succeeded in oversow- making an impression on the centre of the enemy, when £™g|J3h their heroic general received a wound in the wrist. ..."

2. Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal by Ephraim George Squier (1852)
"Social order is attacked ; the lava of sanguinary destruction threatens to oversow our dearest interests. The assassin of the honored Venerio, ..."

3. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1837)
"... against a power, which threatened to oversow the independence of all Europe ; but it might : more truly said, that tlie United States, not act- g upon ..."

4. Historical Sketches by John Henry Newman (1901)
"Keep it (quoth he) for fear of thieves, for danger of enemies, lest when men be asleep, they oversow cockle among that good seed of wheat, which the Son of ..."

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