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Entry 11 senses · 8 variants Webster, 1913

Mow

/mō/ · IPA /moʊ/
01 n. A wry face.
  1. 1.
    A wry face.
02 v. i. To make mouths.
  1. 1.
    To make mouths.
    “Nodding, becking, and mowing.” — Tyndale.
03 n. Same as Mew, a gull.
  1. 1.
    Same as Mew, a gull.(Zool.) See: Mew
04 v. May; can.
pres. sing. Mow; pl. Mowe
  1. 1.
    May; can.[Obs.]
    “Our walles mowe not make hem resistence.” Chaucer.
05 v. t. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
imp. Mowed; p. p. Mowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing
  1. 1.
    To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
  2. 2.
    To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
  3. 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.
06 v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
  1. 1.
    To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
07 n. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  1. 1.
    A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  2. 2.
    The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
08 v. t. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
  1. 1.
    To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.