a. Also 8 thick-sowed. Sown thickly or with little interval between the seeds. Also fig. So Thick-sow v. (rare), to sow thickly.
1683. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1687), 429. A little Plot of ground thick-sown.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 285, ¶ 8. Metaphors are not so thick sown in Milton.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, I. Pref. 14. Many were more inclined to fall on the well-laden thick-sowed English than any others.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 1234. To count The thick-sown glories in this field of fire.
1896. Harper’s Mag., April, 671/2. The distances, thick-sown with the faint yellow candle-flames.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 7 Oct., 3/1. It is useless to thick-sow your dialogue with ‘ess fay’ and ‘thicky,’ and ‘pretty vitty,’… and omit the breath of life and … expression of character.
