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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mew
    n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
         [syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul]
    2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
       [syn: mew, mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus]
    v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew]
    2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, v. t. [From Mew a cage.]
   To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other
   inclosure.
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         More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak.
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         Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]
   To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.] --Shak.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, n.
   The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
   Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zool.)
   A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus);
   called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden.
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8. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, v. i.
   To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a
   new appearance.
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         Now everything doth mew,
         And shifts his rustic winter robe.       --Turbervile.
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9. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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   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.
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            Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer.
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            Forthcoming from her darksome mew.    --Spenser.
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            Violets in their secret mews.         --Wordsworth.
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   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.
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Thesaurus Results for Mew:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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