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Resow

Resow \Re*sow"\ (r?*s?"), v. t. To sow again.
--Bacon.

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resow

vb. To sow again, to plant seed where it has already been planted.

Usage examples of "resow".

Within a week most of the hard work had been done and the resowing completed.

The defenses have been regrown and resown with plants that cannot burn.

Wherever there lived an ablebodied man, woman or child, the farm fields had been at least in part resown and were showing early green.

In the case of varieties of the same species, the struggle will generally be almost equally severe, and we sometimes see the contest soon decided: for instance, if several varieties of wheat be sown together, and the mixed seed be resown, some of the varieties which best suit the soil or climate, or are naturally the most fertile, will beat the others and so yield more seed, and will consequently in a few years quite supplant the other varieties.