Found 3 items, similar to Mew.
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Definition: mew
mengeong
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: mew
mew
n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn:
meow,
miaou,
miaow]
2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
[syn:
mew gull,
sea mew,
Larus canus]
mew
v 1: cry like a cat;
“the cat meowed” [syn:
meow]
2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mew
Mew
\Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]
To cry as a cat. [Written also
meaw,
meow.] --Shak.
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Mew
\Mew\, n.
The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
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Mew
\Mew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Mewing.] [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr.
movere to move. See
Move, and cf.
Mew a cage,
Molt.]
To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his
feathers.
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Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.
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Mew
\Mew\, v. i.
To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a
new appearance.
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Now everything doth mew,
And shifts his rustic winter robe. --Turbervile.
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Mew
\Mew\, n. [OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin,
the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt,
mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d
Mew.]
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1. 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.
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Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer.
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Forthcoming from her darksome mew. --Spenser.
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Violets in their secret mews. --Wordsworth.
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2. 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.
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Mew
\Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.)
A gull, esp. the common British species (
Larus canus);
called also
sea mew,
maa,
mar,
mow, and
cobb.
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Mew
\Mew\, v. t. [From
Mew a cage.]
To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other
inclosure.
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More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak.
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Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden.
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