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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Spicknel \Spick"nel\, 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.]
     To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \Mew\, n.
     The common cry of a cat. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \Mew\, n. [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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mew \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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