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   Mew (?), n. [AS. mw, akin to D. meeuw, G. möwe, OHG. mh, Icel. mār.] (Zool.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
   
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   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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   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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   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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   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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   Mew, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.]  Shak.
   
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   Mew, n. The common cry of a cat.  Shak.
   
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   Spicknel (?), 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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