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Mow v. t. (past mowed; past part. mown; pres. part. mowing)

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.

Mow v. i. (past mowed; past part. mown; pres. part. mowing) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.

Mown past part., adj. Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

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... the lamps lighted inside the little building, and Japanese lanterns making the freshly-mown weed patch a festive place, with little tables set for the ice-cream and cake which were to be served from the shed, leaving the library proper, clean and crumbless. Bess and Winifred, with their attendant squires, were to act as Mrs. Graham's lieutenants outside, and the other ...

— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett

... weeks old Offered to my Deitie: For which this year they shall be free From raging floods, that as they pass Leave their gravel in the grass: Nor shall their Meads be overflown, When their grass is newly mown. ...

— The Faithful Shepherdess - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10). • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... when I have done my task, Stern law again asserts her domination, 'Tis cruel 'mid the new-mown hay to bask, And find one's mind ...

— Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series • James Williams

... front line and the work of the moppers-up soon began. The advance across the open was splendidly carried out, all ranks behaving magnificently, as was the case throughout the entire action. Leipzig Trench was taken and the leading lines advanced against the Hindenburg Trench. These were mown down and by 8.15 a.m. every Company Officer was a casualty. It now became obvious to Colonel Morton that Leipzig Trench must be held, as without reinforcements, no further advance could be made, both flanks being exposed, ...

— The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) - Record of War Service, 1914-1918 • Various

... did you say? Look, what a crop mown for our glory here!— That flag is of the Swedish Guards, ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

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