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Mow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A heap, mass or pile of hay deposited in a barn.

2. [We never give this name to hay piled in the field or open air. The latter is called a stack or rick.]

3. A wry face.

Mow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cut grass; to practice mowing; to use the scythe. Does the man mow well?

2. To perform the business of mowing; to cut and make grass into hay; to gather the crop of grass, or other crop.

3. [In America, mow is not applied to the cutting of wheat or rye. When these are cut with a scythe, they are said to be cradled. Oats and barley are sometimes mowed.]

4. To make mouths.

Mow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay hay in a heap or mass in a barn, or to lay it in a suitable manner.

2. preterit tense mower; participle passive mowed or mown. [The Latin has meto, and the Gr. to mow or reap. The last radical letter is not ascertained.]

3. To cut down with a scythe, as grass or other plants. We say, to mow grass.

4. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

5. To cut down with speed; to cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity. We say, a discharge of grape shot mows down whole ranks of men. Hence Saturn or Time is represented with a scythe, an emblem of the general and indiscriminate destruction of the human race by death.

Mow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A wry face.

2. Same as Mew, a gull.

3. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

4. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Mow [Present tense singular] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mow [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

May; can.

Mow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make mouths.

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

Mow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

Mowburn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

Mowburn [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

Mowe [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To be able; must; may.

Mowe [Noun and verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 1st & 2d Mow.

Mowe [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mowe [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See 4th Mow.

Mowed [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. MOWED

2. MOWER, noun One who mows; a man dexterous in the use of the scythe.

Mowed [Imperfect tense] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mowed [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mowen Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

Mowing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of cutting with a scythe.

2. Land from which grass is cut.

Mowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Putting into a mow.

2. Cutting down with scythe.

Mowing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.

2. Land from which grass is cut; meadow land.

Mowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mown [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Cut with a scythe.

2. Cleared of grass with a scythe, as land.

Mown Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mown [Past participle and adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

Mowyer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mower.