Mew

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A cage for hawks, especially when molting.
  • n. A secret place; a hideaway.
  • n. A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
  • n. A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.
  • v. To confine in or as if in a cage.
  • verb-intransitive. To molt. Used of a hawk.
  • verb-intransitive. To make the high-pitched, crying sound of a cat; meow.
  • n. The crying sound of a cat; a meow.
  • n. A seagull (Larus canus) of northern Eurasia and northwest North America.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The crying sound of a cat; a meow.
  • v. To meow.
  • interjection. A cat's cry.
  • n. A gull, seagull.
  • n. A prison, or other place of confinement.
  • n. A hiding-place; a secret store or den.
  • n. A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
  • n. A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
  • v. To shut away, confine, lock up.
  • v. To moult.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
  • v. To shed or cast; to change; to molt.
  • verb-intransitive. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • v. To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
  • verb-intransitive. To cry as a cat.
  • n. The common cry of a cat.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gull; a sea-mew. See cut under gull.
  • To cry as a cat.
  • n. The cry of a cat.
  • To change (the covering or dress); especially, to shed, as feathers; molt.
  • n. A cage for birds while mewing or molting; hence, any cage or coop for birds, especially for hawks.
  • n. Hence An inclosure; a close place; a place of retirement or confinement.
  • n. A place where fowls were confined for fattening.
  • n. plural A stable. See mews.
  • To shut up; confine, as in a cage or other inclosure; immure.
  • An obsolete or dialectal preterit of mow.
  • n. A dialectal variant of mow.
  • n. The herb spignel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
  • v. cry like a cat
  • n. the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
  • n. the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
  • Verb Form
    mewed    mewes    mewing    mews   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    emit    let out    let loose    utter    cry    gull    seagull    sea gull   
    Cross Reference
    inmew    to cry mew   
    Variant
    sea mew    maa    mar    mow    Cobb    meaw    meow   
    Form
    mewed    mewing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    change    molt    inclose    cry    miaow    miaul    mewl    caterwaul    confine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few   
    Same Context
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    wander    fullof    inor