- the tiny, high-pitched sound a cat or kitten makes.
- the characteristic sound a gull makes.
- to make a mew or emit a similar sound.
- a small gull, Larus canus, of Eurasia and northwestern North America.
- a cage for hawks, especially while molting.
- a pen in which poultry is fattened.
- a place of retirement or concealment.
- mews, (usually used with a singular verb)Chiefly British.
- (formerly) an area of stables built around a small street.
- a street having small apartments converted from such stables.
- to shut up in or as in a mew; confine; conceal (often followed by up).
- to shed (feathers); molt.
- (esp of a cat) to make a characteristic high-pitched cry
- such a sound
- any seagull, esp the common gull, Larus canus
- a room or cage for hawks, esp while moulting
- to confine (hawks or falcons) in a shelter, cage, etc, usually by tethering them to a perch
- to confine, conceal
- (of hawks or falcons) to moult
- to shed (one's covering, clothes, etc)