MOW

A wry face. "Make mows at him." Shak.

To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.

Same as Mew, a gull.

May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.

To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.

To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.

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.

To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.