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What's The Definition Of 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\, v. i. To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. --Tyndale.
\Mow\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Mew}, a gull.
\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\, 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\, v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
\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\, v. t. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.