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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Spicknel \Spick"nel\, n. [Contr. from spike nail a large, long nail; -- so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary leaves.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous herb ({Meum Athamanticum}) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also {baldmoney}, {mew}, and {bearwort}. [Written also {spignel}.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, v. t. [From {Mew} a cage.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. [1913 Webster] More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, n. The common cry of a cat. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h, Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zool.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mewing}.] [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See {Move}, and cf. {Mew} a cage, {Molt}.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. [1913 Webster] Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, v. i. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. [1913 Webster] Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. --Turbervile. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mew \Mew\, n. [OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt, mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d {Mew}.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Forthcoming from her darksome mew. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Violets in their secret mews. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: mew n 1: the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: {meow}, {mew}, {miaou}, {miaow}, {miaul}] 2: the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America [syn: {mew}, {mew gull}, {sea mew}, {Larus canus}] v 1: cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: {meow}, {mew}] 2: utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls