Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) A wry face. 2. (v. i.) To make mouths. 3. (n.) Same as Mew. 4. (pres. sing.) of Mow 5. (v.) May; can. 6. (v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine. 7. (v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow. 8. (v. t.) 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. 9. (v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay. 10. (n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn. 11. (n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed. 12. (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
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