Gilt vs. Sow: What's the Difference?
Gilt and Sow Definitions
Gilt
A past tense and a past participle of gild1.
Sow
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
Gilt
Covered with gold or gilt.
Sow
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
Gilt
Resembling gold, as in color or luster.
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Sow
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
Gilt
A thin layer of gold or a paint containing or simulating gold that is applied in gilding.
Sow
To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.
Gilt
Superficial brilliance or gloss.
Sow
To scatter seed for growing.
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Gilt
(Slang) Money.
Sow
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
Gilt
A young sow that has not farrowed.
Sow
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
Gilt
(uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. Category:en:Gold
Sow
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
Gilt
Gold-colored paint or other coating.
Sow
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
Gilt
Money.
Sow
A female pig.
Gilt
A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
Sow
A female bear, she-bear.
Gilt
A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
Sow
A female guinea pig.
Gilt
A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
Gilt
Golden coloured.
Sow
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
Gilt
Simple past tense and past participle of gild
Sow
A contemptible, often fat woman.
Gilt
A female pig, when young.
Sow
A sowbug.
Gilt
Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
Sow
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
Gilt
Money.
Sow
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Gilt
Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
Sow
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
Gilt
A coating of gold or of something that looks like gold
Sow
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Gilt
Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold;
Long aureate (or golden) hair
A gold carpet
Sow
Obsolete spelling of sew
Sow
To sew. See Sew.
Sow
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
Sow
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
Sow
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
Sow
A sow bug.
Sow
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Sow
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
Sow
An adult female hog
Sow
Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
Sow
Introduce into an environment;
Sow suspicion or beliefs
Sow
Place seeds in or on (the ground);
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds
