lawn

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A light, finely woven, cotton or linen fabric.
• noun A plot of grass, usually tended or mowed, as one around a residence or in a park.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An open space in a forest or between or among woods; a glade.
• noun An open space of ground of some size, covered with grass, and kept smoothly mown, as near a dwelling or in a pleasure-ground.
• To make into lawn; lay down in grass as a lawn.
• noun Fine linen cambric, used for various purposes: also applied in the trade to various sheer muslins.
• noun In ceramics, a fine sieve, generally of silk, through which slip for glazing is passed to bring it to uniform fineness and fluidity.
• Made or consisting of lawn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun An open space between woods.
• noun Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
• noun a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
• noun 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 Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An open space between woods.
• noun Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
• noun uncountable A type of thin linen or cotton.
• noun in the plural Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
• noun countable, obsolete A piece of clothing made from lawn.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a field of cultivated and mowed grass