Entry 11 senses · 8 variants Webster, 1913 Mow /mō/ · IPA /moʊ/ n. v. i. n. v. v. t. v. i. n. v. t. 01 n. A wry face. 1. A wry face. 02 v. i. To make mouths. 1. To make mouths. “Nodding, becking, and mowing.” — Tyndale. 03 n. Same as Mew, a gull. 1. Same as Mew, a gull.(Zool.) See: Mew 04 v. May; can. pres. sing. Mow; pl. Mowe 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. 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. 06 v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay. 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. 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. 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. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.