On thy bald, awful head, O sovran Blanc.
Coleridge.
Sow (?), v. i. To sew. See Sew. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Sow (?), n. [OE. sowe, suwe, AS. sugu, akin to s, D. zog, zeug, OHG. s,
G. sau, Icel. sr, Dan. so, Sw. sugga, so, L. sus. Gr. "y^s, sy^s, Zend.
hu boar; probably from the root seen in Skr. s to beget, to bear; the
animal being named in allusion to its fecundity. √294. Cf. Hyena,
Soil to stain, Son, Swine.] 1. (Zoöl.) The female of swine, or of the
hog kind.