What does mew mean?
Mew means (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull..
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/ˈmjuː/ · noun
(archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull..
A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
From helm to sea they saw him leap, As arrow from the string, And dive into the water deep, As mew upon the wing.
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.
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.
1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10, […] Nay some have learn’d the trick To beg for absent persons; feign them sick, Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;
When it came to his turn to mention Sir John Sparkle, he represented him as a man of an immense estate and narrow disposition, who mewed up his only child, a fine young lady, from the conversation of mankind, under the strict watch and inspection of an old governante, who was either so honest, envious, or insatiable, that nobody had been as yet able to make her a friend, or get access to her charge, though numbers attempted it every day […]
Use mew when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mew means (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull..
Common synonyms include miaow, sea mew, mew gull, miaou.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]
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