Mow
Mow , noun
[French moue pouting, a wry face; compare OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]
A wry face.
Make mows at him.
Mow , intransitive verb
To make mouths.
Nodding, becking, and mowing.
Mow , noun
(Zoology) Same as Mew, a gull.
Mow , verb
[Anglo-Saxon magan. See May, v.]
May; can. [Obsolete]
Thou mow now escapen.
Our walles mowe not make hem resistence.
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.