mover (mover)

[ O thou eternal Mover of the heavens, Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch! IMG:content-1036.png:[blocks in formation] moving-plant (mö'ving-plant), n. An East mowburn (mou'bern), v. i. To heat and fer- Indian plant, Desmodium gyrans. Also called telegraph- plant . mowl (mo), v.; pret. mowed , pp. mowed or mown , ppr. mowing . [Sc. maw ; mowen , mawen (pret. mew ), māwan (pret. meów ) = OFries. mea = D. maaijen = MLG. meien, meigen, megen, LG. maien, meien = OHG. mājan, maan, mãn, MHG. majen, mægen, mewen, G. mähen = Sw. meja = Dan. meie ( He has got somebody's old two-hand sword, to mow you off at the knees. B. Jonson, Epicæne, iv. 2. The many-leaved locks Of thriving Charvel, which the bleating Flocks Can with their daily hunger hardly moше So much as daily doth still newly growe. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 2. To cut the gra from: as, to mow a meadow. -3. To cut down indiscriminately, or in great numbers or quantity. He will mow all down before him, and leave his pa age polled. Shak ., Cor., iv. 5. 214. II. in trans. To cut down gra or grain; prac- tise mowing; use the scythe or (in modern use) mowing-machine. An ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. 96. 2. One who or that which is in motion or action. In all nations where a number are to draw any one way, there must be some one principal mover . Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 8. 3. A proposer; one who submits a proposition or recommends anything for consideration or adoption: as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body. Attempts were made by different members to point out the absence from the resolution of any specific or tangible charge, or to extract from the mover some declaration that he had been informed or believed that the President had been guilty of some official misconduct. G. T. Curtis, Buchanan, II. 248. 4. One whose busine is to move furniture and other household goods, as from one place of residence to another. [Colloq.] First mover. (a) The primum mobile; that formerly supposed sphere of the heavens which carries all the others, and in which are fixed the fixed stars. Do therefore as the planets do: move always and be carried with the motion of your first mover, which is your sovereign; a popular judge is a deformed thing. Bacon , Charge to the Judges in the Star-chamber. (b) The first cause. - Prime mover. See prime . movere t (mö'ver-es), n . [ME. movere e ; Amyddes saugh I Hate stonde, That for hir wrathe, yre, and onde, Semede to ben a movere e . Rom, of the Rose, 1. 149. mūga, müha, a heap or pile of hay, mow, = Icel. mügr, mügi, a swath, a crowd (lit. a heap), = Norw. mug a, mua, mue = Sw. dial. mug a, muva, a heap, esp. of hay; akin to muck1, q. v. Cf. ML. mug a, mugium, a mow ( O, pleasantly the harvest moon, Between the shadow of the mows , Looked on them through the great elm-boughs! Whittier, Witch's Daughter. 2. The compartment in a barn where hay, sheaves of grain, etc., are stored.