English-Thai Dictionary

mew

N เสียงร้อง ของ แมว  meow siang-rong-kong-mao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MEW

n.A seafowl of the genus Larus; a gull.

 

MEW

n.A cage for birds; an inclosure; a place of confinement.

 

MEW

v.t.[from the noun. ] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mew'd.
Close mew'd in their sedans, for fear of air.

 

MEW

v.t.[L. muto and moto. ] To shed or cast; to change; to molt. The hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mew'd her horns--

 

MEW

v.i.[L. mugio.] To cry as a cat.

 

MEW

v.i.To change; to put on a new appearance.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MEW

Mew, n. Etym: [AS. m, akin to D. meeuw, G. möwe, OHG. m, Icel. mar. ](Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus ); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

 

MEW

Mew, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mewing. ] Etym: [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See Move, and cf. Mew a cage, Molt. ]

 

Defn: To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

 

MEW

MEW Mew, v. i.

 

Defn: To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

 

MEW

Mew, n. Etym: [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. ]

 

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. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

 

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.

 

MEW

Mew, v. t. Etym: [From Mew a cage. ]

 

Defn: To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mewed. Shak. Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. Dryden.

 

MEW

Mew, v. i. Etym: [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen. ]

 

Defn: To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow. ] Shak.

 

MEW

MEW Mew, n.

 

Defn: The common cry of a cat. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mew

mew 1 |myo͞o mju | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a cat or some kinds of bird ) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise: a throng of cats and kittens mewing to be fed | (as noun mewing ) : the mewing of gulls. ▶noun the high-pitched crying noise made by a cat or bird: a kitten's mew. ORIGIN Middle English: imitative.

 

mew

mew 2 |mju myo͞o |Falconry ▶noun (usu. mews ) a cage or building for trained hawks, esp. while they are molting. ▶verb 1 [ no obj. ] (esp. of a trained hawk ) molt. 2 [ with obj. ] confine (a trained hawk ) to a cage or building at the time of molting. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer ‘to molt, ’ from Latin mutare ‘to change. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

mew

mew 1 |mjuː | ▶verb [ no obj. ] (of a cat or gull ) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise: cats mewing to be fed | (as noun mewing ) : he heard mewing somewhere near the house. ▶noun the high-pitched cry of a cat or gull. ORIGIN Middle English: imitative.

 

mew

mew 2 |mjuː |Falconry ▶noun (usu. mews ) a cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting. ▶verb 1 [ no obj. ] (of a trained hawk ) moult. 2 [ with obj. ] confine (a trained hawk ) to a cage or building while moulting. • confine (someone ) in a restricting place or situation: a lovely wife mewed up in an Oxfordshire farmhouse. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer ‘to moult ’, from Latin mutare ‘to change ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mew

mew verb the cat mewed plaintively: meow, mewl, cry.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mew

mew verb 1 the cat mewed plaintively: miaow, meow, mewl, yowl, cry. 2 above them, seagulls mewed: cry, screech, squawk.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mew

mew /mjuː /動詞 自動詞 〈ネコ カモメなどが 〉ニャーと鳴く (｟米 ｠meow, ｟英 ｠miaow ).名詞 C ニャー .