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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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. [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.

Source : WordNet®

mow
     n : a loft for storing hay [syn: {hayloft}]
     [also: {mown}]

mow
     v 1: cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass" [syn: {cut down}]
     2: make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and
        mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: {pout}, {mop}]
     [also: {mown}]
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