Crossword-Solution: MEW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mew | n. | A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb. |
| Mew | v. t. | To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. |
| Mew | v. i. | To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. |
| Mew | 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. |
| Mew | 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. |
| Mew | v. t. | To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. |
| Mew | v. i. | To cry as a cat. |
| Mew | n. | The common cry of a cat. |
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Sentences with MEW (5)
Here’s spring come, and the nights one makes up bands To roam the town and sing out carnival, And I’ve been three weeks shut within my mew, A-painting for the great man, saints and saints And saints again.
The kitten went round and round the table, quite erect, and, holding on by her fierce young claws, she stopped to mew with pathos at each elbow, or darted off to the open door when a song sparrow forgot himself and lit in the grass too near.
XLIII “If my good service reap this recompense, To be clapt up in close and secret mew, And as a thief be after dragged from thence, To suffer punishment as law finds due; Let Godfrey come or send, I will not hence Until we know who shall this bargain rue, That of our tragedy the late done fact May be the first, and this the second, act.
The peasant who shows the ruins of the tower, which still crown the beetling cliff and behold the war of the waves, though no more tenanted saved by the sea-mew and cormorant, even yet affirms that on this fatal night the Master of Ravenswood, by the bitter exclamations of his despair, evoked some evil fiend, under whose malignant influence the future tissue of incidents was woven.
There were excellent ragouts, and the prince made use of the cat's paw to taste them; but he sometimes pulled his paw too roughly, and Bluet, not understanding raillery, began to mew and be quite out of patience.
Quotes with MEW (3)
You weresunrise to merise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
You werewater to medeep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
You weremoon's eye to mepull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 325 times in crossword archives (1961–2025).