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verb

Mew v. t. (past & past part. mewed; pres. part. mewing) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. "Nine times the moon had mewed her horns."

Mew v. t. To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. "More pity that the eagle should be mewed." "Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air."

Mew v. i. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. "Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe."

Mew v. i. (Written also meaw, meow) To cry as a cat.

noun

Mew n. (Zool.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

Mew n.

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; in the latter sense usually in the plural. "Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe." "Forthcoming from her darksome mew." "Violets in their secret mews."

A stable or range of stables for horses; compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.

Mew n. The common cry of a cat.

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"Mew" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Mew! Mew!" interrupted Simpkin, and he scratched at the door. But the key was under the tailor's pillow, he could not ...

— The Tailor of Gloucester • Beatrix Potter

... sign that should warn his disciples to fly from approaching ruin."—Keith's Evidences, p. 62. "In one she sets as a prototype for exact imitation."—Rush, on the Voice, p. xxiii. "In which some only bleat, bark, mew, winnow, and bray, a little better than others."—Ib., p. 90. "Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being effected with such unmanly fears."—Rollin's Hist., ii, 106. "Thou sawedst every action."—Guy's ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... which was a Fox. The gentleman with the bushy tail was in a far corner. He crouched low; his eyes glowed. The Kitten wandered, sniffing, up to the bars, put its head in, sniffed again, then made toward the feed-pan, to be seized in a flash by the crouching Fox. It gave a frightened "mew," but a single shake cut that short and would have ended Kitty's nine lives at once, had not the negro come to the rescue. He had no weapon and could not get into the cage, but he spat with such copious vigor in the Fox's face that he dropped the Kitten and returned to the corner, ...

— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

... curious expression in her eyes which seemed to say, "Please don't bother me now for this is my busy time," I brought three little kittens from their basket in the wood-shed and put them under her. The kittens felt the warmth of her body and began to mew and stir about. I shall never forget the look of astonishment in the little hen as she slowly rose in her nest and peered beneath her body at the kittens. She looked at me as if to say that she really couldn't ...

— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller

... The foam-white mew, the green-black scart, The famishing hawk, the wailing tern, All birds from the sand-building mart To ...

— Christmas in Legend and Story - A Book for Boys and Girls • Elva S. Smith

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