 10 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mew
noun
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}]
verb
1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: {meow}]
2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spicknel \Spick"nel\, noun [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}.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, verb (used without an object) [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]
To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, noun
The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, verb (used without an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, noun [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}.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, noun [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.)
A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus});
called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, verb (used with an object) [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. --Shak.
Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "mew":
adytum, ashram, bark, bawl, bay, beleaguer, bell, bellow, beset,
besiege, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blockade, bottle up, bound,
box in, box up, bray, burrow, cage, call, caterwaul, cave, cell,
chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain,
contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up,
corral, couch, covert, crib, cry, den, detain, earth, encage,
encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, form,
give tongue, give voice, hedge in, hem in, hermitage, hideaway,
hideout, hiding place, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint,
hole, holy of holies, house in, howl, immure, impound, imprison,
incarcerate, include, inhibit, ivory tower, jail, keep in,
keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lair, leaguer, lodge,
low, meow, mew up, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pen, pen in,
pen up, pocket, pound, privacy, pule, quarantine, rail in, recess,
restrain, restrict, retreat, roar, run, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum,
screak, scream, screech, seal up, secret place, shackle, shrine,
shut in, shut up, squall, squeak, squeal, stable, surround, troat,
tunnel, ululate, wail, wall in, whicker, whine, whinny, wrap, yap,
yard, yard up, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl
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