Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.)
A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus});
called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mow \Mow\, v. i.
To make mouths.
Nodding, becking, and mowing. --Tyndale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mow \Mow\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Same as {Mew}, a gull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting,
a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.]
A wry face. ``Make mows at him.'' --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mow \Mow\, v. i.
To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut
grass for hay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mow
n : a loft for storing hay [syn: {hayloft}]
v 1: cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass" [syn: {cut down}]
2: make a sad face; "mop and mow" [syn: {pout}, {mop}]
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