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Mow
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 8
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 8
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Same as Mew, a gull.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 8
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 8
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 8
Part of speech: verb (v.)
May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 6 of 8
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 7 of 8
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 8 of 8
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.