mew

1. (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.obsolete

2. (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.Examples: "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."obsolete

3. (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.obsolete

4. (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.Examples: "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. (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.in-plural

1. (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.Examples: "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;"; "1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10, […] Nay some have learn’d the trick To beg for absent persons; feign them sick, Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:"archaic

2. (of a bird) To moult.Examples: "The hawk mewed his feathers."; "Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]"; "Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […]"

3. (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.obsolete

4. (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.obsolete

1. (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.obsolete

1. (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.especially

2. (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.

1. (archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.archaic