Lexic.us

2. Noun. The act or process of sowing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sowing

1. sow [v] - See also: sow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sowing

Literary usage of Sowing

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

1. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"The average yield for the two trials is in ;avor of thick sowing. ... DIFFERENT DEPTHS OF sowing OATS. White Russian oats were used in this trial and all ..."

2. Bulletin by New Jersey, Dept. of Agriculture, New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture (1918)
"sowing WITHOUT A NURSE CROP In the early spring, run the disc over the land ... The practice of sowing alfalfa with a nurse crop is being displaced by the ..."

3. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"For it appears that in general the first sowing is better, ... After the sowing however it is beneficial for all that rain should fall on them, ..."

4. A Selection of Spiritual Songs: With Music, for the Sunday-school by Charles S. Robinson (1880)
"What are you sowing? ARE you sowing the seeds of mercy, Fellow pilgrim! day by day? ... Are you sowing beside all waters ? What are you sowing to-day? ..."

5. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"Such a difference in time of sowing oats may make the difference between ... Depth of sowing.—The depth of sowing between one to four inches does not ..."

6. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"Such a difference in time of sowing oats may make the difference between ... Depth of sowing.—The depth of sowing between one to four inches does not ..."

7. Improving Planting Stock Quality: The Humboldt Experience by James L. Jenkinson (1995)
"By sowing early, most Pacific Slope nurseries could ship 1-0 Douglas-fir. There are reasons, of course, not to shift from the traditional sowing schedule ..."

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