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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored.
  2. n. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn.
  3. v. To cut down (grass or grain) with a scythe or a mechanical device.
  4. v. To cut (grass or grain) from: mow the lawn.
  5. v. To cut down grass or other growth.
  6. mow down To destroy in great numbers as if cutting down, as in battle.
  7. mow down To overwhelm: mowed down the opposition with strong arguments.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cut down (grass or grain) with a sharp implement; cut with a scythe or (in recent use) a mowing-machine; hence, to cut down in general.
  2. To cut the grass from: as, to mow a meadow.
  3. To cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity.
  4. To cut down grass or grain; practise mowing; use the scythe or (in modern use) mowing-machine.
  5. n. A heap or pile of hay, or of sheaves of grain, deposited in a barn; also, in the west of England, a rick or stack of hay or grain.
  6. n. The compartment in a barn where hay, sheaves of grain, etc., are stored.
  7. To put in a mow; lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a pile, heap, or mass in a barn: commonly with away.
  8. To be able; may. See may.
  9. n. A kinswoman; a sister-in-law.
  10. n. A grimace, especially an insulting one; a mock.
  11. n. A jest; a joke: commonly in the plural.
  12. To make months or grimaces; mock. Compare mop.
  13. n. A Chinese land-measure, equal to about one sixth of an English acre.
  14. n. Also spelled mou.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
  2. v. To put into mows.
  3. n. A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
  4. n. A scornful grimace.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A wry face.
  2. v. To make mouths.
  3. n. Same as mew, a gull.
  4. v. May; can.
  5. v. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
  6. v. To cut the grass from.
  7. v. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down.
  8. v. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
  9. n. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
  10. n. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
  11. v. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
  2. v. cut with a blade or mower
  3. n. a loft in a barn where hay is stored

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, stack of hay, from Old English mūga.Middle English mowen, from Old English māwan; see mē-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  • oroboros Cut inches off yards? --NYT crossword clue Feb 16, 2012

  • oroboros MOW (inverted) = MOW Feb 16, 2012

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