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Definition of Mewed
1. mew [v] - See also: mew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mewed
Literary usage of Mewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... While Albany with feeble hand Held borrowed truncheon of command, The young
King, mewed in Stirling tower, Was stranger to respect and power. ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"Chichester concludes this letter by informing Salisbury that he had "in readiness
some dogs and mewed hawks" to send him, " which," he adds, " shall come to ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"... when they saw the light, and were placed upon all four«, they ran about and
mewed—bushy tails on end— after the most vigorous fashion imaginable. ..."
4. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"So long as this process lasted, while the birds were casting their feathers, they
were kept close, mewed up, ..."
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