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Webster 1913 Edition

Mow

Mow

,
Noun.
[Written also
moe
and
mowe
.]
[F.
moue
pouting, a wry face; cf. OD.
mouwe
the protruded lip.]
A wry face.
“Make mows at him.”
Shak.

Mow

,
Verb.
I.
To make mouths.
Nodding, becking, and
mowing
.
Tyndale.

Mow

,
Noun.
(Zool.)
Same as
Mew
, a gull.

Mow

,
Verb.
[
pres. sing.
Mow
,
pl.
Mowe
,
Mowen
,
Moun
.]
[AS.
magan
. See
May
,
Verb.
]
May; can.
“Thou mow now escapen.”
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Our walles
mowe
not make hem resistence.
Chaucer.

Mow

(mō)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Mowed
(mōd)
;
p. p.
Mowed
or
Mown
(mōn)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mowing
.]
[OE.
mowen
,
mawen
, AS.
māwan
; akin to D.
maaijen
, G.
mähen
, OHG.
mājan
, Dan.
meie
, L.
metere
to reap, mow, Gr.
ἀμᾶν
. Cf.
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

,
Verb.
I.
To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

Mow

(mou)
,
Noun.
[OE.
mowe
, AS.
mūga
.]
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

(mou)
,
Verb.
T.
To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mow

MOW

,
Noun.
A heap, mass or pile of hay deposited in a barn.
[We never give this name to hay piled in the field or open air. The latter is called a stack or rick.]

MOW

,
Verb.
T.
To lay hay in a heap or mass in a barn, or to lay it in a suitable manner.

MOW

,
Verb.
T.
pret. mower; pp. mowed or mown. [The L. has meto, and the Gr. to mow or reap. The last radical letter is not ascertained.]
1.
To cut down with a scythe, as grass or other plants. We say, to mow grass.
2.
To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
3.
To cut down with speed; to cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity. We say, a discharge of grape shot mows down whole ranks of men. Hence Saturn or Time is represented with a scythe, an emblem of the general and indiscriminate destruction of the human race by death.

MOW

,
Verb.
I.
To cut grass; to practice mowing; to use the scythe. Does the man mow well?
1.
To perform the business of mowing; to cut and make grass into hay; to gather the crop of grass, or other crop.
[In America, mow is not applied to the cutting of wheat or rye. When these are cut with a scythe, they are said to be cradled. Oats and barley are sometimes mowed.]

MOW

,
Noun.
[from mouth.] A wry face.

MOW

,
Verb.
I.
To make mouths.

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