Definition: mow

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Mow \Mow\, v. i.
   To make mouths.

         Nodding, becking, and mowing.            --Tyndale.

Mow \Mow\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   Same as Mew, a gull.

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.

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.

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.

Mow \Mow\, v. i.
   To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut
   grass for hay.

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.

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.