Mew /(?)/

1. A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb. (Zool.)

imp. & p. p. Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mewing

1. To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.

   Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.

1. 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.

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.

   Forthcoming from her darksome mew.

   Violets in their secret mews.

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.

1. To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.

   More pity that the eagle should be mewed.

   Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.

1. To cry as a cat.

1. The common cry of a cat.