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mew1

–noun

1.	the tiny, high-pitched sound a cat or kitten makes.

2.	the characteristic sound a gull makes.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to make a mew or emit a similar sound.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME meuen; imit.

]

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–noun

a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.

Also called mew gull.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME; OE mǣwe; c. G Müwe

]

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–noun

1.	a cage for hawks, esp. while molting.

2.	a pen in which poultry is fattened.

3.	a place of retirement or concealment.

mews, (usually used with a singular verb

) Chiefly British.

a.	(formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.

b.	a street having small apartments converted from such stables.

–verb (used with object)

5.	Archaic. to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often fol. by up).

[Origin: 1325–75; ME mue < MF, akin to muer to molt. See mew⁴

]

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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to shed (feathers); to molt.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME mewen < OF muer to molt < L mūtāre to change

]

—Related forms

mewer, noun

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n.

A cage for hawks, especially when molting.
A secret place; a hideaway.
mews (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
1. A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
2. A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.

v.   mewed, mew·ing, mews

v.   tr.
To confine in or as if in a cage.

v.   intr.
To molt. Used of a hawk.

[Middle English meue, from Old French mue, from muer, to molt, from Latin mūtāre, to change; see mei-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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intr.v.   mewed, mew·ing, mews
To make the high-pitched, crying sound of a cat; meow.

n.   The crying sound of a cat; a meow.

[Middle English meuen, of imitative origin.]

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n. A seagull (Larus canus) of northern Eurasia and northwest North America.

[Middle English meue, from Old English mǣw, mēu.]

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mew (v.)

"make a sound like a cat," c.1325, mewen, of imitative origin (cf. Ger. miauen, FR. miauler, It. miagolare, Sp. maullar, and see meow). Variant mewl is attested from 1600.

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mew (n.1)

"seagull," O.E. mæw, from P.Gmc. *maigwis (cf. O.S. mew, Fris. meau, M.L.G. mewe, Du. meeuw "gull"), of imitative origin. O.Fr. moue (Fr. mouette) and Lith. mevas are Gmc. loan-words.

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mew (n.2)

"cage," c.1300, from O.Fr. mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from L. mutare "to change" (see mutable).

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mew
noun
1.	the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow]
2.	the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
verb
1.	cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow]
2.	utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

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mew [mjuː] verb

to make the cry of a (young) cat
Example: The kittens mewed.

Arabic:	يَموء
Chinese (Simplified):	咪咪叫
Chinese (Traditional):	咪咪叫
Czech:	mňoukat, kňourat
Danish:	mjave
Dutch:	miauwen
Estonian:	näuguma
Finnish:	naukua
French:	miauler
German:	miauen
Greek:	νιαουρίζω
Hungarian:	nyávog
Icelandic:	mjálma
Indonesian:	mengeong
Italian:	miagolare

Japanese:	ニャーと鳴く
Korean:	야옹하고 울다
Latvian:	ņaudēt
Lithuanian:	miaukti
Norwegian:	mjaue; skrike
Polish:	miauczeć
Portuguese (Brazil):	miar
Portuguese (Portugal):	miar
Romanian:	a mieuna
Russian:	мяукать
Slovak:	mňaučať
Slovenian:	mijavkati
Spanish:	maullar
Swedish:	jama
Turkish:	miyavlamak

mew [mjuː] noun

such a cry

Arabic:	مُواء
Chinese (Simplified):	咪（猫叫声）
Chinese (Traditional):	咪(貓叫聲)
Czech:	mňoukání
Danish:	mjaven
Dutch:	miauw
Estonian:	näugumine
Finnish:	nau'unta
French:	miaulement
German:	das Miauen
Greek:	νιαούρισμα
Hungarian:	nyávogás
Icelandic:	mjálm
Indonesian:	suara meongan
Italian:	miagolio

Japanese:	ニャーという鳴き声
Korean:	야옹하는 소리
Latvian:	ņaudēšana
Lithuanian:	miaukimas
Norwegian:	mjau(ing); måkeskrik
Polish:	miauczenie
Portuguese (Brazil):	miado
Portuguese (Portugal):	miado
Romanian:	mieunat
Russian:	мяуканье
Slovak:	mňaučanie
Slovenian:	mijavkanje
Spanish:	maullido
Swedish:	jamande
Turkish:	miyavlama

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Mew

Maw\ (m[add]), n. [See Mew a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) A gull.

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Mew

Meaw\, v. i. See Mew, to cry as a cat.

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Mew

Me*ow"\, v. i. & n. See 6th and 7th Mew.

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Mew

Meute\, n. A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1. --Milman.

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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\, 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.

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.

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Mew

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.

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