DEFINITION
MEW:
• (n.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called
also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
• (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his
feathers.
• (v. i.) 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. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other
inclosure.
• (v. i.) To cry as a cat.
• (n.) The common cry of a cat.