mew /ˈmju/
貓叫聲,海鷗(vi.)咪咪叫鷹籠,巢,隱匿處(vt.)關進籠子
Mew, v. i. To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.]
Mew, v. t. 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 n. Zool. A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
Mew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mewing.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.
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, n.
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, n. The common cry of a cat.
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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 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow]
2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls