Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mew"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]
To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mew \Mew\, n.
The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spicknel \Spick"nel\, n. [Contr. from spike nail a large, long
nail; -- so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary
leaves.] (Bot.)
An umbelliferous herb ({Meum Athamanticum}) having finely
divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also {baldmoney},
{mew}, and {bearwort}. [Written also {spignel}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
v : utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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