MEW
\mjˈuː], \mjˈuː], \m_j_ˈuː]\
Definitions of MEW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
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the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
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utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
By Princeton University
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
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the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
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utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
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To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
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To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
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The common cry of a cat.
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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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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.
By Oddity Software
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To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
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To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
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To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
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The common cry of a cat.
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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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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The cry of a cat or an imitation of it; spelled also miaow; a seagull.
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To inclose or confine, as in a cage.
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To cry like a cat; miaow.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A sea-fowl: a gull.
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The try of a cat.
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To shed or cast: to confine, as in a cage.
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To change: to cast the feathers: to moult.
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A place for mewing or confining: a cage for hawks while mewing: generally in pl. a stable because the royal stables were built where the king's hawks were mewed or confined: a place of confinement.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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