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All full of freshe flowers, white and reede.

To fertile vales and dewy meads

My weary, wandering steps he leads.

Mead"ow (?), n. [AS. meady; akin
to m&aemacr;d, and to G. matte; prob. also to E.
mow. See Mow to cut (grass), and cf. 2d Mead.]
1. A tract of low or level land producing grass
which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for
hay.

2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank
herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt
meadows near Newark Bay.

Mead"ow, a. Of or pertaining to a
meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a
meadow. "Fat meadow ground." Milton.

&fist; For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see
the particular word in the Vocabulary.

Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as
Deergrass. -- Meadow foxtail
(Bot.


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