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mew
UK /mjuː/ US /mju/
noun 9verb 7intj 3name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
deep, next, secret
VERB + MEW
continued, kept
MEW + NOUN
d, kites, lot, sight
PREP.
from, in, in, upon
ADV.
seldom
Definitions
noun
1
A gull, seagull.
A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.
noun
1
A prison, or other place of confinement.
2
A hiding place; a secret store or den.
Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
3
A breeding-cage for birds.
4
A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
5
A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
verb
1
To shut away, confine, lock up.
More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;
2
To moult.
The hawk mewed his feathers.
Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]
3
To cause to moult.
4
To shed antlers.
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Example Bank
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A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
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From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.
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Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
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A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
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More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
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To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;
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