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Definition of Emmew
1. v. t. To mew or coop up.
Definition of Emmew
1. Verb. (obsolete) To mew or coop up. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emmew
1. to confine [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: confine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emmew
Literary usage of Emmew
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"Here emmew is a term well known in falconry, the mew being the place where the
hawks were kept and tended during the critical period of moulting. ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew As falcon doth the fowl, ...
Here emmew is a term well known in falconry, the mew being the place where the ..."
3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"This outward-sainted deputy, Whose settled visage and deliberate word Nips youth
i' th' head, and follies doth emmew As faulcon doth the ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To emmew. To restrain, to keep in a mew, or cage, either by force or terror. ...
doth emmew As faulcon doth the fowl. Metis, for M., Ш, 1. ..."
5. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"emmew—Follies doth, Doth mew up follies (a term in falconry: see ///«£'),—" Forces
follies ... [emmew means mewed up, as was done to hawks while moulting, ..."
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