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Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

f an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton. The prince . . . has taken me in his train, so that I am in no danger of starving for this bout. Goldsmith.…

as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.

orizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play. -- Finger board (Mus.), the part of a stringed instrument against which the fingers press the strings to vary the tone; the keyboard of a piano, organ, etc.; manual. -- Finger bowl or glass, a b…

Ground tit. (Zoöl.) See Ground wren (below). -- Ground wheel, that wheel of a harvester, mowing machine, etc., which, rolling on the ground, drives the mechanism. -- Ground wren (Zoöl.), a small California bird (Chamæa fasciata) allied to the wrens and titmice. It inhibits the arid plains. Called also gronnd tit, and…

To inclose for mowing; to set aside for grass. "A ground . . . hained in." Holland.

The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

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

One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use. The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. Dryden. The scythe of Time mows down. Milton.…

A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.

A device attached to a mowing machine for raising the uncut fallen grain and marking the limit of the swath.

The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.