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lawn

1
1. a flat and usually level area of mown and cultivated grass
2. an archaic or dialect word for glade

lawn

2
a fine linen or cotton fabric, used for clothing
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lawn

[lȯn]
(textiles)
A sheer cotton or cotton and polyester fabric made of combed or carded yarn.
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lawn

1. An open space of ground of some size, covered with grass and kept smoothly mown.
2. Same as gauze, 2.
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LAWN

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LAWN

(Local Area Wireless Network) An earlier acronym for a WLAN. See wireless LAN.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Lawn

 

a piece of land covered with grass that is kept mowed and trimmed evenly. There are parterre, park, sport, and moresque (motley colored) lawns.

Lawns are a basic element of flower gardens and parterres and serve as a background for flower beds and decorative trees as well as for sculptures and fountains. Park and moresque lawns are arranged in parks, gardens, public gardens, and boulevards. Grass seed is sown primarily in the spring by hand or by seeding machines that are driven in perpendicular directions. Then the lawn is raked manually or mechanically and rolled. The combination of grasses for lawns is chosen to create thick herbage and a dense turf. The cereals, such as meadow grass, fescue, ryegrass, and bent, are sown 15-30 g of seeds per sq m. Moresque lawns combine a mixture of cereals and annuals with beautiful blossoms, such as the poppy, cornflower, calendula, and candytuft. Lawn care includes watering, fertilizing, mowing, weeding, and additional sowing.

REFERENCES

Saakov, S. G. Gazony i tsvetochnoe oformlenie. Moscow-Leningrad, 1954.
Mal’Ko, I. M. Sadovo-parkovoe stroitel’stvo i khoziaistvo, 3rd ed.Moscow, 1962.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Ellen--ELLEN!" she cried in her shrill old voice, trying to bend forward far enough to catch a glimpse of the lawn beyond the verandah.
The afternoon sunlight still lingered upon the bright lawns and shrubberies, and up and down Bellevue Avenue rolled a double line of victorias, dog-carts, landaus and "vis-a-vis," carrying well-dressed ladies and gentlemen away from the Beaufort garden-party, or homeward from their daily afternoon turn along the Ocean Drive.
`When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized.
I made a careful examination of the ground about the little lawn. I wasted some time in futile questionings, conveyed, as well as I was able, to such of the little people as came by.
He was absent-minded, but he stopped to pat a little dog whose attentions he usually ignored, and he picked a creamy-white rose as he crossed the lawn and wondered why it should remind him of her.
When a lawn lies wet for any length of time, damp conditions encourage algae, lichens and liverworts.
While the grass is growing strongly help it to become thicker and greener with a dose of triple action lawn treatment.
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