Category:Mow

Mow, n. [Written also moe and mowe.] Etym: [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]

Defn: A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.

mow Mow, v. i.

Defn: To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.

mow Mow, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Mew, a gull.

mow Mow, v. [pres. sing. Mow, pl. Mowe, Mowen, Moun.] Etym: [AS. magan. See May, v.]

Defn: May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.

mow Mow, v. t. [imp. Mowed; p. p. Mowed or Mown (p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] Etym: [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. mawan; akin to D. maaijen, G. mähen, OHG. majan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]

1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

3. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.

mow Mow, v. i.

Defn: To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

mow Mow, n. Etym: [OE. mowe, AS. m.]

1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

mow Mow, v. t.

Defn: To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.