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   Mew (?), n. [AS. mw, akin to D. meeuw, G. möwe, OHG. mh, Icel. mār.] (Zool.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
   
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   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.
   
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   Mow, v. i. To make mouths.
   
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   Nodding, becking, and mowing. Tyndale.
   
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   Mow, n. (Zool.) Same as Mew, a gull.
   
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   Mow, v. [pres. sing. Mow, pl. Mowe, Mowen, Moun.] [AS. magan. See May, v.] May; can. “Thou mow now escapen.” [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.
   
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   Mow (mō), v. t. [imp. Mowed (mōd); p. p. Mowed or Mown (mōn); p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. māwan; akin to D. maaijen, G. mähen, OHG. mājan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. ἀμᾶν.  Cf. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]
   1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
   
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   2. To cut the grass from; as, “to mow a meadow”.
   
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   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”.
   
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   Mow, v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
   
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   Mow (mou), n. [OE. mowe, AS. mūga.]
   1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
   
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   2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
   
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   Mow (mou), 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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