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Mew
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
(3):
(v. i.) To cry as a cat.
(4):
(n.) The common cry of a cat.
(5):
(v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
(6):
(v. i.) To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
(7):
(n.) 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.
(8):
(v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mew'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/mew.html. 1828.
