lawnmower

One who or that which mows a lawn: spec if., a lawn-mowing machine. The most common form has a revolving cylinder, armed with spiral knives, which have a shearing action against a square-edged stationary knife set tangentially to them. The cylinder being driven by the supporting wheels, the gra is nipped between the spiral and straight knives, cut off, and delivered into a box. IMG:content-0409.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Fabric : A very fine, white goods, cotton or linen, finer than cambric, of an open texture; plain or printed. The white sleeves, which form a charac teristic part of the dre of a bishop in the English Church, are of lawn; hence, by metonymy, the office, dignity, or position of a bishop. [Cf. ERMINE, A., I. 2.] "Those limbs in lawn and softest silk array'd." Prior: Edwin and Emma. 2. Porcelain : A fine sieve of silk, 300 threads to the inch, through which slip for porcelain is strained, to insure impalpable, creamy fluid. [SLIP.] B. As adj .: Made of lawn.