mop

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A household implement made of absorbent material attached to a typically long handle and used for washing, dusting, or drying floors.
2. n. A loosely tangled bunch or mass: a mop of unruly hair.
3. v. To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop: mopped the hallway; mopping the spilled water; mopped her forehead with a towel.
4. v. To use a mop to wash or dry surfaces: mopped along the baseboards.
5. mop up To clear (an area) of remaining enemy troops after a victory.
6. mop up Informal To perform the minor tasks that conclude a project or an activity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make a wry mouth.
2. To fidget about.
3. n. A wry mouth; a pout; a grimace.
4. n. A pouting person, especially a pouting child; hence, a pet child; a child; a young girl; a moppet.
5. n. A young fish. See the quotation under def. 2.
6. n. 4. The haddock.
7. n. A fool.
8. n. A napkin.
9. n. A bunch of thrums or coarse yarn, or a piece of cloth, fastened to a long handle and used for cleaning floors, windows, carriages, etc. A smaller utensil of the same sort is used for washing dishes, etc.
10. n. Anything having the shape or appearance of a mop.
11. n. A statute fair to which servants of all kinds come to be hired by farmers and others.
12. n. A tuft of grass.
13. To rub or wipe with or as with a mop; clean with a mop.
14. To muffle up.
15. To drink greedily.

Wiktionary

1. n. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
2. n. humorous A dense head of hair.
3. n. UK, dialect A fair where servants are hired.
4. n. UK, dialect The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
5. n. A made-up face; a grimace.
6. v. transitive To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A made-up face; a grimace.
2. v. obsolete To make a wry mouth.
3. n. An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
4. n. Prov. Eng. A fair where servants are hired.
5. n. Prov. Eng. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
6. v. To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
2. v. to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
3. n. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors