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 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