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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mown
adj
  1. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay"
    Synonym(s): mown, cut
    Antonym(s): uncut, unmown
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mow \Mow\, v. t. [imp. {Mowed}; p. p. {Mowed} or {Mown}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Mowing}.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[be]wan; akin to
      D. maaijen, G. m[84]hen, OHG. m[be]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere
      to reap, mow, Gr. [?]. 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mown \Mown\, p. p. & a.
      Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing;
      as, a mown field.
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