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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lawn \Lawn\ (l[add]n), noun [OE. laund, launde, F. lande heath, moor; of Celtic origin; cf. W. llan an open, clear place, llawnt a smooth rising hill, lawn, Armor. lann or lan territory, country, lann a prickly plant, pl. lannou heath, moor.]
1. An open space between woods. --Milton.
''Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.'' --Tennyson.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
{Lawn mower}, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
{Lawn tennis}, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See {Tennis}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lawn \Lawn\, noun [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France.] A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself.
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lawn
noun: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "lawn": Astroturf, artificial turf, bowling green, common, fairway, golf course, golf links, grassplot, green, greensward, greenyard, grounds, park, putting green, sod, sward, turf, village green
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
LAWN {wireless local area network}
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Lawn, TX (town, FIPS 41872) Location: 32.13623 N, 99.74997 W Population (1990): 358 (159 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79530
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Lawn, TX -- U.S. town in Texas Population (2000): 353 Housing Units (2000): 162 Land area (2000): 0.564349 sq. miles (1.461656 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.564349 sq. miles (1.461656 sq. km) FIPS code: 41872 Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48 Location: 32.135405 N, 99.748066 W ZIP Codes (1990): 79530 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Lawn, TX Lawn
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
LAWN Local Area Wireless Network
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