mews

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An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place

It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.

plural form of mew
A place where birds of prey are housed
A mews is a street or small area surrounded by houses that were originally built as stables. The house is in a secluded mews. a small street or area surrounded by buildings in a city, where horses used to be kept, but where people now live (mew (14-20 centuries), from mue, from muer ). Row of stables and coach houses with living quarters above, built behind houses, especially in 17th-18th-century London. Most have been converted into modernized dwellings. The term originally referred to the royal stables in London, built where the king's hawks once stayed at molting ("mew") time
street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews
plural of mew
{i} (British) royal stables; residential buildings that were previously stables
street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews"
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A prison, or other place of confinement
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To shut away, confine, lock up

To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall .

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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.

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A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept
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The crying sound of a cat; a meow
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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.

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A cat's cry
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{n} a cage, coop, inclosure, seafowl
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{v} to shut up, molt, cast horns, cry as a cat
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cry like a cat; "the cat meowed"
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utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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The common cry of a cat
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To cry as a cat
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To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers
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To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance
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the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
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When a cat mews, it makes a soft high-pitched noise. From somewhere, the kitten mewed. if a cat mews, it makes a soft high crying sound (From the sound)
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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
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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
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the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb
mew
let me out - I need to chase the neighbor's cat
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America
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A cats cry
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A gull, esp
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To meow
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the facility or building for keeping a hawk
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{i} sound a cat makes; sea gull; cage for hawks; place of confinement or shelter
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A gull, seagull
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mean effective wind
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{f} make or imitate the sound of a cat; shed or cast off (feathers), change; shut up in or conceal
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To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure
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the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
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    Etymologie

    [ 'myü ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

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