mow

mow 2   (mō)    v.   mowed, mowed or mown (mōn), mow·ing, mows v.   tr. To cut down (grass or grain) with a scythe or a mechanical device. To cut (grass or grain) from: mow the lawn. v.   intr. To cut down grass or other growth. Phrasal Verb(s): mow down To destroy in great numbers as if cutting down, as in battle. To overwhelm: mowed down the opposition with strong arguments. [Middle English mowen, from Old English māwan; see mē-4 in Indo-European roots.] mow'er (mō'ər) n.

Mow

Mow\, v. i. To make mouths.

Nodding, becking, and mowing. --Tyndale.

Mow

Mow\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Mew, a gull.

Mow

Mow\, v. [pres. sing. Mow, pl. Mowe, Mowen, Moun.] [AS. magan. See May, v.] May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. --Chaucer.

Mow

Mow\, v. t. [imp. Mowed; p. p. Mowed or Mown; p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[=a]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m["a]hen, OHG. m[=a]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. ?. Cf. 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

Mow\, v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

Mow

Mow\, n. [OE. mowe, AS. m?ga.]

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

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

mow  (n.)