Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mow

Mow , noun

[French moue pouting, a wry face; compare OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]

A wry face.
Make mows at him. — Shakespeare

Mow , intransitive verb

To make mouths.
Nodding, becking, and mowing. — Tyndale

Mow , noun

(Zoology) Same as Mew, a gull.

Mow , verb

[Anglo-Saxon magan. See May, v.]

May; can. [Obsolete]
Thou mow now escapen. — Chaucer
Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. — Chaucer

Mow (mō) , transitive verb

[Old English mowen, mawen, Anglo-Saxon māwan; akin to Dutch maaijen, German mahen, Old High German mājan, Danish meie, Latin metere to reap, mow, Greek 'ama^n. Compare 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 , intransitive verb

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

Mow (mou) , noun

[Old English mowe, Anglo-Saxon 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) , transitive verb

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