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3 [myoo]
–noun
| 1. | a cage for hawks, esp. while molting. |
| 2. | a pen in which poultry is fattened. |
| 3. | a place of retirement or concealment. |
| 4. | mews, (usually used with a singular verb ) Chiefly British.
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–verb (used with object)
| 5. | Archaic. to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often fol. by up). |
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Mew
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. --Turbervile.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.]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. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. --Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. --Wordsworth. 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.Mew
Mew\, v. t. [From Mew a cage.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak. Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden.Mew
Mew\, n. The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
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Language Translation for : mew
Spanish:
maullar,
German:
miauen,
Japanese:
ニャーと鳴く
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.
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.
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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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