| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  my |
| NOUN: | 1. A cage for hawks, especially when molting. 2. A secret place; a hideaway. 3. mews (used with a sing. or pl. verb) a. A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments. b. A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: mewed, mew·ing, mews
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To confine in or as if in a cage. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To molt. Used of a hawk. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English meue, from Old French mue, from muer, to molt, from Latin m t re, to change. See mei-1 in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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