A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Defn: Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
The meadows had been lately cut, and the smell of new-mown hay hung sensuously in the air.
The hum of printing-presses from dingy basements, the smell of printer's ink from many open doors, had a charm for him which perversely recalled the scent of new-mown hay in a Hampton meadow long years before.
As they approached the summit of the mountain the path took abrupter turns, and was crossed in numberless places by the channels of winter avalanches, which had mown down great pines as if they had been blades of grass.
But the saddest thing to see was field after field of rich grain mown within a few inches of the ground by those swift, keen sickles which no man's hand had held.
They were literally mown down by the fire from the French machine guns and rifles, but the wave of attackers seemed unending, and by dint of overwhelming numbers it poured into the French trenches.
Between these woods and the British line the attacking force was mown down by combined rifle, machine-gun and artillery fire, not a man getting within forty yards of the trenches.
A half company then attacking 'Bald Hill' was immediately mown down by the German machine guns.
It smelled of new-mown grass, was full of little shiverings of leaves, and all colored like the bloom of a black grape.
After dinner we had some real Japanese tea, tasting exactly like a little hot water poured on very fragrant new-mown hay.
Government House is on the outskirts of the city in the midst of a beautiful park which is kept in excellent order, the green turf being closely mown and dotted with tropical trees and bushes.
There the private fields, carefully protected during the spring, from the tread or bite of cattle, and mown yearly in the summer, have all the wealth of flowers peculiar to our hay-meadows.
The haymakers were at work in the fields, and the perfume of the new-mown hay brought with it the recollection of my native fields.
We got to the spot at Achi Baba where the Munsters and the Dublin Fusiliers, during a gallant advance, had been enfiladed by machine-gun fire and literally mown down.
We looked eagerly around us to see what had been done, and noticed the dead Turks everywhere, many of them in clusters of half a dozen, just as they had been mown down by our machine-guns.
May He descend like rain upon the mown grass, and as showers that water the earth.
May Thy gracious influences descend like rain upon the mown grass, and as showers that water the earth.
I uncorked a bottle of eau de cologne, one of lavender-water, and a little bottle of new-mown hay, so that she might have a choice.
Her ideal was a freshly mown field in the moonlight, and when she rolled slowly along, she looked like a moving haystack, and exhaled an odor of hay all about her.
All she cared for was the smell of hay, and she it was who brought the scent New Mown Hay into fashion.
The men charged with the bayonet, but as on the previous day, were mown down by the German machine-guns and rifles, and failed, after heavy losses.
Battalion again started the attack but were mown down by machine gun fire.
But the girl at the piano thought of nothing but the sharp, sweet odour of new-mown hay.
Ah, what was there in the memory of new-mown hay to fill her with this sharp sweet pain?
Her mind reverted once more to her delightful reverie, and the scent of new-mown hay was again about her.
The rank grasses had been mown to make a walk, and in a corner flourished a little group of pot-herbs.
But hunger made me bold, and I tramped over the mown grass of the yard, which in the dusk I could see to be set with flower-beds, till I stood before the door of as fine a mansion as I had found in the dominion.
Illustration] At noon through the open window Comes the scent of the new-mown hay.
The day for the bleeding human body seems to be over now that men are mown down by shells fired eight miles away.
And the ripe ---- of the new-mown hay gives it a sweet and wholesome odor.
The third moderation is in the exception that exempts grounds mown for hay to be converted into tillage.
Furthermore, if any man tie his horse in any stubble and it be mown in reasonable time [he] shall pay the aforesaid pain.
The brief pink butterflies of sunrise and sunset rose up from the mown fields of darkness, and fluttered low in a cloud.
Siegmund sat watching the last morning blowing in across the mown darkness, till the whole field of the world was exposed, till the moon was like a dead mouse which floats on water.
There were only two fields to be mown this year, to provide just enough stuff to last until the spring.
There was a slight drift of woodruff, sweet new-mown hay, scenting the air under the boughs.
But merely to have mown them is worth having lived for," he said, looking at me.
Gordon and Crawford advanced over the mown field, across the turnpike, into the woods, and poured in their fire.
Standing upon the ridge and looking west, we behold the turnpike at our feet, a mown field beyond, and fifty or sixty rods distant a cornfield, and a grove of oaks.
Weber's troops move over themown field, past the burial-ground, leaping the fences.
Miller's house, the cornfield east, the mown field south, the turnpike and the woods west.
The cornfield was bordered on the east by a narrow strip of woodland, on the south by a newlymown field extending to the turnpike.
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