3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mown \Mown\, p. p. & a.
Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing;
as a mown field.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
mown
adj : (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement
or machine; "the smell of new-mown hay" [syn: {cut}]
[ant: {unmown}]
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