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Sew   /soʊ/   Listen
verb
Sew  v. t.  To follow; to pursue; to sue. (Obs.)


Sew  v. t.  (past sewed; past part. sewn; pres. part. sewing)  
1.
To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. "No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment."
2.
To close or stop by ssewing; often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
3.
To inclose by sewing; sometimes with up; as, to sew money in a bag.


Sew  v. t.  To drain, as a pond, for taking the fish. (Obs.)


Sew  v. i.  (past sewed; past part. sewn; pres. part. sewing)  To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.


noun
Sew  n.  Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. (Obs.) "I will not tell of their strange sewes."





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"Sew" Quotes from Famous Books



... undressing this suppressed anger would find a vent, kept her on thorns throughout the evening. She tried to read; she could not. She tried to sew; she could not. She tried to muse; she could not do that connectedly. 'If this is the beginning, what will the end be!' she said in a whisper, and felt many misgivings as to the policy of being overhasty in establishing an independence at the ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy
... and fill it with a fine forcemeat, and sew it in securely; give the fish a dredging of flour, and pour on warmed butter, sprinkle it with pepper and salt, and set it to bake in a Dutch-oven before the fire, basting it, from time to time, with butter warmed, and capers; it should ...
— The Jewish Manual • Judith Cohen Montefiore
... affected by the same sense of constraint. She changed her position, leaning forward to bend her head above her work, so that he saw only the foreshortened tip of her nose and the streak of red in her hair; then she slipped to her feet, saying "I can't see to sew," and went back to ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton
... thousands of instances that "there are no good workwomen out of work, or earning low wages," nor that "those who cannot get good wages are women who have spent their prime in idleness ... and sew badly." ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... work as neatly as you, Withers," she said gaily, "and I shall ask you to do the most difficult part. I want you to sew my lovely poppies over the collar and facings of the jacket, just spacing them a little and making a dainty irregularity. And then Mary—won't you, Mary?—will do the same with the waistband while I put a border of them ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson


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