Mew
Mew , noun
[Anglo-Saxon m{not transcribed}w, akin to Dutch meeuw, German mowe, Old High German m{not transcribed}h, Icelandic mār.]
(Zoology) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
Mew , transitive verb
[Old English muen, French muer, from Latin mutare to change, from movere to move. See Move, and compare 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.
Mew , intransitive verb
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.
Mew , noun
[Old English mue, French mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, from muer to molt, mew, Latin 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.
Forthcoming from her darksome mew.
Violets in their secret mews.
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 , transitive verb
[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.
Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
Mew , intransitive verb
[Of imitative origin; compare German miauen.]
To cry as a cat. — Shakespeare
Mew , noun
The common cry of a cat. — Shakespeare