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noun
1.
a cage for hawks, especially 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.
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 followed by up ).
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
to shed (feathers); to molt.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English mewen < Old French muer to molt < Latin mūtāre to change
1325–75; Middle English mewen < Old French muer to molt < Latin mūtāre to change
Related forms
mew·er, noun
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mew1 (mjuː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) (esp of a cat) to make a characteristic high-pitched cry |
| —n | |
| 2. | such a sound |
| [C14: imitative] | |
| mew2 (mjuː) | |
| —n | |
| mew gull, Also called: sea mew any seagull, esp the common gull, Larus canus | |
| [Old English mǣw; compare Old Saxon mēu, Middle Dutch mēwe] | |
| mew3 (mjuː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a room or cage for hawks, esp while moulting |
| —vb (often foll by up) | |
| 2. | to confine (hawks or falcons) in a shelter, cage, etc, usually by tethering them to a perch |
| 3. | to confine, conceal |
| [C14: from Old French mue, from muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change] | |
| mew4 (mjuː) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) (of hawks or falcons) to moult |
| 2. | obsolete (tr) to shed (one's covering, clothes, etc) |
| [C14: from Old French muer to moult, from Latin mūtāre to change] | |
| mews (mjuːz) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings |
| 2. | the buildings around a mews |
| 3. | informal an individual residence in a mews |
| [C14: pl of | |
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Word Origin & History
mew
"make a sound like a cat," early 14c., mewen, of imitative origin (cf. Ger. miauen, Fr. miauler, It. miagolare, Sp. maullar, and see meow). Related: Mewed; mewing.
mew
"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
"cage," c.1300, from O.Fr. mue "cage for hawks, especially when molting," from muer "to molt," from L. mutare "to change" (see mutable).
mews
"stables grouped around an open yard," 1631, from Mewes, name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, built 1534 on the site of the former royal mews (attested from c.1394), where the king's hawks were kept (see mew (n.2)). Extended by 1805 to "street of former stables converted
to human habitations."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
If money is no object, choices include mews cottages, waterfront studios or loft apartments in regency townhouses.
Some accommodations are in the main house, while other are in adjacent mews.
What is so strange is that she walks right up to both boys when they're paying no attention to her and mews.
Lakeshore mews is quickly becoming a hub of galleries and studios in the downtown area.
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