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Definition of Mewing
1. mew [v] - See also: mew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mewing
Literary usage of Mewing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections by Rhode Island Historical Society (1835)
"Jl lover of peace, and one of eminent respect, mewing this treatise at the presse,
kindly added this verse prefixed, which hath both ..."
2. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"mewing Toads. Excur- sion to Feira St. Anna. Mule Riding. Former Highway Robbers.
Inn at Feira St. Anna and its Guests. The Fair. ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... the more'e her napless fate, Her short wings were dipt of late : And poor I,
her fortune rueing, Am myself put up a mewing : But if I my cage can rid, ..."
4. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"... is held of our lord the King in capite, by the service of mewing one goshawk,
and finding a person to carry it at ..."
5. The Gentleman's Recreation: In Four Parts, Viz. Hunting, Hawking, Fowling by Nicholas Cox, John Manwood (1721)
"Of the Manning, Luring, Flights and mewing of a Faulcon, with other Things properly
belonging to an ..."
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