Definify.com
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
,Verb.
[
pres. sing.
Mow
, pl.
Mowe
, Mowen
, Moun
.] 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
.] 1.
To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
2.
To cut the grass from;
as, to
. mow
a meadow3.
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 menMow
,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.
[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.
MOW
,Verb.
T.
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.
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.
MOW
,Verb.
I.