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Definition of: mew
(my) noun
1. A cage for molting birds; an enclosure; pen for fattening or breeding; also, any place of concealment.
2. plural A stable; specifically, the stables in London in which the royal horses are kept: so called because built on the site of the mews or cages of the royal hawks.
—v.t.
1. To confine in or as in a mew; immure or conceal: often with up.
2. Obs. To change (feathers); molt.
—v.i.
3. Obs. To molt. [<OF muer change <L mutare]
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