Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mewed"

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.


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