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sower

soʊər
WordNet
Christ points three men to a sower in the field. The man is spreading seed in his field. The seed that falls on the road is eaten by birds. Another part does not find good soil on the stones. One third falls among thorn bushes and is suffocated. Only the seed in the field ends up on good soil. In the background houses and a church. Above the performance a title. Underneath six lines of verse and a reference to Matthew 13: 3-5. The print is part of an album.
Christ points three men to a sower in the field. The man is spreading seed in his field. The seed that falls on the road is eaten by birds. Another part does not find good soil on the stones. One third falls among thorn bushes and is suffocated. Only the seed in the field ends up on good soil. In the background houses and a church. Above the performance a title. Underneath six lines of verse and a reference to Matthew 13: 3-5. The print is part of an album.
  1. (n) sower
    someone who sows
Illustrations
Farms near a plowed field. On the left a sower.
Farms near a plowed field. On the left a sower.
A plowman and a sower working in the fields. Top left a scale.
A plowman and a sower working in the fields. Top left a scale.
Christ as a sower. In the sky a crowd of cherubim. One of two prints in an unfinished series on the parable of the weeds in the grain, Matt. 13: 24-30.
Christ as a sower. In the sky a crowd of cherubim. One of two prints in an unfinished series on the parable of the weeds in the grain, Matt. 13: 24-30.
Sheet with three biblical scenes with title. Above a medallion with the parable of the sower (Mat 13: 1-9). In the middle a performance with the two dissimilar brothers. Under a shepherd with a sheep; a scene from the parable of the lost sheep. This print is an illustration from 'Extracted Biblical Stories, to a Reading Book for Young People'.
Sheet with three biblical scenes with title. Above a medallion with the parable of the sower (Mat 13: 1-9). In the middle a performance with the two dissimilar brothers. Under a shepherd with a sheep; a scene from the parable of the lost sheep. This print is an illustration from 'Extracted Biblical Stories, to a Reading Book for Young People'.
Four performances. Top left: parable of the sower. A woman points to the earth, while in the background a sower scatters seed over the field. Top right: Death knocks on a door with a scythe in hand. In the background a party under a pergola. Bottom left: a man and a boy are pointed out by a man to bones and a skeleton in a cemetery, in memory of death. Bottom right: an old man pointing at an hourglass and an apple. The last three performances call to remember the death.
Four performances. Top left: parable of the sower. A woman points to the earth, while in the background a sower scatters seed over the field. Top right: Death knocks on a door with a scythe in hand. In the background a party under a pergola. Bottom left: a man and a boy are pointed out by a man to bones and a skeleton in a cemetery, in memory of death. Bottom right: an old man pointing at an hourglass and an apple. The last three performances call to remember the death.
Landscape with Christ and the apostles in the foreground and the sower in front of a castle in the background.
Landscape with Christ and the apostles in the foreground and the sower in front of a castle in the background.
Four performances. Top left: a woman points to the plants. In the background a sower is walking across the field. Top right: two men and a woman in a garden. In the background a house and a fountain. Bottom left: three boys blowing bubbles and in the background ruins, both symbols of the transience of things. Bottom right: Two women, a man and children look at the stars outside the city walls.
Four performances. Top left: a woman points to the plants. In the background a sower is walking across the field. Top right: two men and a woman in a garden. In the background a house and a fountain. Bottom left: three boys blowing bubbles and in the background ruins, both symbols of the transience of things. Bottom right: Two women, a man and children look at the stars outside the city walls.
Christ sits in a boat with four disciples and tells the parable of the sower to the crowd on the bank. In the background to the right, the sower who sows seed in the field. Below the picture a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Mat. 14. This print is part of an album.
Christ sits in a boat with four disciples and tells the parable of the sower to the crowd on the bank. In the background to the right, the sower who sows seed in the field. Below the picture a reference in Latin to the Bible text in Mat. 14. This print is part of an album.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sower
    One who, or that which, sows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sower
    One who sows or scatters seed.
  2. (n) sower
    That which sows seed; a sowing-machine.
  3. (n) sower
    One who scatters or spreads; a disseminator; a breeder; a promoter.
  4. (n) sower
    An obsolete spelling of sewer.
  5. sower
    An obsolete spelling of sour.
Usage in the news

Nathan Sowers of Moberly netted a first half goal Monday with an assist coming from Mitchell Ewing, but that effort was not enough as the soccer Spartans returned home from Jefferson City last night losing 2-1 to Class 2 No. moberlymonitor.com

Redeeming the Story by John Sowers (Zondervan, 2010). christianitytoday.com

Sowers argues that only God, working through his people, can fill the hole left by absent earthly fathers. christianitytoday.com

HomeReligion Seeds From The Sower . pasadenajournal.com

Megan Anne Busker and Jonathan Steven Sower were joined in marriage July 16, 2011 during a Mass at St Mary's Catholic Church in College Station, Texas. texaswest.com

JOHN VINCENT Rico of Colerain and Darcy Elynn Springer of St Clairsville announce the engagement of their daughter, Retta Jane Rico, to Leonard Ellis Whan , son of Edward Ellis Whan and Miriam del Carmen Sowers of Miami, Fl. timesleaderonline.com

Carol Sowers is KHQA's Vice President of Public Affairs and an Anchor. khqa.com

Click on the headline for a video blog from Nick Sowers. timesbulletin.com

I've put most of the self-sowers in my garden on an enemies' list. philly.com

Both of these life-altering events happened 44 years ago to Jonesboro resident Don Sowers as he fought in the jungles and rice patties of Vietnam. neighbornewspapers.com

At just 13-years-old, Kirsten Sowers is not only a singer-songwriter who is making quite a name for herself all around the country, but she uses her music to support her very own charity, the Kirsten Kares Foundation. fmz.com

Davina Sowers of Davina & The Vagabonds hit the Midwest out of Florida in 2005 and she hasn't looked back. b1027.com

Byron Sowers, right, with son Bryon, on their farm in western Kansas. nytimes.com

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), July 13, 2008 "A sower went out to sow" (Mt 13:3). americamagazine.org

Cultivating a Life-Long Love for God: A Bible study for women based on the parable of The Sower. navpress.com

Usage in scientific papers

Sowers, Multidimensional reaction-diffusion equations with white noise boundary perturbations, Ann.
Predictability of the Burgers dynamics under model uncertainty

Sowers, Large deviations for a reaction–diffusion equation with non-Gaussian perturbation, Ann.
Large deviations from a stationary measure for a class of dissipative PDE's with random kicks

In the final state the shower proceed forward in real time but for initial state parton the sowers proceeds backward in real time.
QCD and Monte Carlo generators

Usage in literature

Those that are only uncommon men are perverts and sowers of pestilence. "The Victorian Age in Literature" by G. K. Chesterton

Some sowers, more expert at their work, sow with both hands and complete the strip each time they walk over the field. "Clovers and How to Grow Them" by Thomas Shaw

Only the enemies of civilisation, the sellers of arms and the sowers of hatred, are growing rich on its ruins. "The World in Chains" by John Mavrogordato

The orator is the sower. "Napoleon the Little" by Victor Hugo

The rising Nile moistening and fertilizing the land, prepares the way for the sower. "Usury" by Calvin Elliott

Gun-wheels, horses' hoofs, feet of men had made of naught the sower's pains. "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston

Where can we find a more promising body of sowers of the grain? "The Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner

You must then ask the jury whether a person so addressed must be considered as a common sower of sedition, etc. "A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)" by Augustus De Morgan

Already the reaper is receiving his wages and gathering in a crop for eternal life, that the sower and reaper may rejoice together. "The Children's Bible" by Henry A. Sherman

The healer is the sower, and the patient's unconscious mind is the soil. "The Arena" by Various

Usage in poetry
More than a man was the sower,
Lured by a man's desire,
For a triune Bride walked close at his side —
Dew and Dust and Fire!
"The Poet's Town" by John Gneisenau Neihardt
Bearded leas embattled stand,
Embattled with the hosts of bread.
Famine has seen and fled.
The sower's hand,
It saves the land:
High honour to the sower's hand!
"Song The Seventh" by Thomas Aird
"Be He Anathema, the Sower of Light!
Be He Anathema whom worlds adore!--
If to our native star He join us not
Be He accursed, through all creation cursed, for aye!"
"The Legend Of The Earth" by Sarah Anne Curzon
It's the sower. He is standing tall and stout
In the sunset's rays which are like flowing gold;
Before his feet are the fields of the fatherland
Spreading their unlimited nakedness.
"The Sowing" by Daniel Varoujan Author object (132)
"Away! away!" cried He of worlds the Sower:
"Away, ye stars! spring in the wastes of heaven;
Broider its purple fields with your fair gems;
Tuneful, elated, gladsome, take your course.
"The Legend Of The Earth" by Sarah Anne Curzon
"I will that all within your bounds shall shine,
Be glad, be prosperous, happy, blest, content,
Shall sing for ever 'Glory be to Thee,
Creator, Father, Sower, who with suns
Hast filled infinity!'"
"The Legend Of The Earth" by Sarah Anne Curzon