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Definition of Enmewed
1. enmew [v] - See also: enmew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enmewed
Literary usage of Enmewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"They were in hawking language ' enmewed,' and dare not show themselves openly
any more than could follies and vices in the city of Vienna, under the stern ..."
2. The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1872)
"... to which a hawk soars; and Donne says under this height to which I soared to
swoop, he my quarry would not rise, but kept himself enmewed, or in court. ..."
3. American Architect and Building News (1908)
"These unsuspected really half timber structures—enmewed like an indiscreet nun—come
to light now and then when an old house is torn down or has to be ..."
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