Sew or Sow, vb. to work with a needle and thread; absol.: Gent. III, 1, 307. Tit. II, 4, 43. Hml. II, 1, 77. Per. IV, 6, 194. Trans.: H4A II, 4, 130. Cor. I, 3, 55. Oth. III, 4, 72. With up: “the sleeves should be cut out and --ed up again,” Shr. IV, 3, 148. With an accus. denoting the effect: “s. me in the skirts of it and beat me to death with a bottom of brown thread,” Shr. IV, 3, 137. “and in a tedious sampler --ed her mind,” Per. II, 4, 39.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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