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Mown

Mow \Mow\ (m[=o]), v. t. [imp. Mowed (m[=o]d); p. p. Mowed or Mown (m[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Mowing.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[=a]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m["a]hen, OHG. m[=a]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. 'ama^n. Cf. Math, Mead a meadow, Meadow.]

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

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

  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.

Mown

Mown \Mown\, p. p. & a. Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

Wiktionary
mown

vb. (past participle of mow English)

WordNet
mow
  1. n. a loft for storing hay [syn: hayloft]

  2. [also: mown]

mown

adj. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of new-mown hay" [syn: cut] [ant: unmown]

mow
  1. v. cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass" [syn: cut down]

  2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop]

  3. [also: mown]

mown

See mow

Usage examples of "mown".

Commander Mown under the usual procedure, or to alert the Battle Center directly.

Captain Crocker was frowning, and even Commander Mown looked concerned as he read the sheet of hard copy Crocker had passed to him.

Half an hour afterward, the sound of a hand-organ in the avenue roused him from the brown study into which he had fallen as he lay on the newly mown grass of the lawn.

The tough Bermuda grass was mown every night by the gardening robots, but it was still like walking over a layer of thick sponge in the morning.

The four of them walked a little way down the mown grass between the rows.

Here, near the forest, the grass was thicker, sweeter, freshly mown and edged with harebells.

Fish and hay wagons rumbled inside with freshly mown hay stacked high as a hut and huge wooden barrels of flounder, monkfish, and herring that made the air smell like the sea.

The familiar scent of freshly mown hay, mixed with the sharp tinge of manure, filled the warm air.

The verges of the road have been mown to reveal neat, upright barbed-wire fencing and fields of army-straight tobacco, maize, cotton, or placidly grazing cattle shiny and plump with sweet pasture.

The air was cool, fragrant of flowers and newly mown lawn and the end of a long, hot day.

The garden was delightful, a glorious mixture of fruit trees, shrubs, a mown lawn there, the glimpse of a vegetable patch behind a screen of beech, and flower beds round and about, all of them stuffed with spring flowers in full bloom.

Andrew had asked about it and was told that Terry, who did not understand the mower, had, while cutting the grass, accidentally mown down the lettuce seedlings Nicky had been cultivating to help his mother with the catering.

The pastures here are very rich in flowers, the tiger lilies being more abundant before the hay is mown, than perhaps even at Fusio itself.