Mew

Noun

 * 1)  A gull, seagull.
 * , II.xii:
 * A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].

Noun

 * 1)  A prison, or other place of confinement.
 * 2)  A hiding-place; a secret store or den.
 * 3) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
 * Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
 * 1)  A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
 * 2) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 243:
 * A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
 * 1)  A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.

Verb

 * 1)  To shut away, confine, lock up.
 * 2) *c. 1669, John Donne, "Loves Warre":
 * To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].

Noun

 * 1) The crying sound of a cat; a meow.

Verb

 * 1)  To meow.

Interjection

 * 1) A cat's cry.

Adverbs for Mew
plaintively;  sympathetically;  maternally; shrilly; vociferously.

Thesaurus
adytum, ashram, bark, bawl, bay, beleaguer, bell, bellow, beset, besiege, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, bray, burrow, cage, call, caterwaul, cave, cell, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, couch, covert, crib, cry, den, detain, earth, encage, encircle, enclose, encompass, enshrine, fence in, form, give tongue, give voice, hedge in, hem in, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, hole, holy of holies, house in, howl, immure, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, inhibit, ivory tower, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lair, leaguer, lodge, low, meow, mew up, mewl, miaow, moo, neigh, nicker, pen, pen in, pen up, pocket, pound, privacy, pule, quarantine, rail in, recess, restrain, restrict, retreat, roar, run, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, screak, scream, screech, seal up, secret place, shackle, shrine, shut in, shut up, squall, squeak, squeal, stable, surround, troat, tunnel, ululate, wail, wall in, whicker, whine, whinny, wrap, yap, yard, yard up, yawl, yawp, yelp, yip, yowl

Etymology 1
From mewe:, from  mæw:, from  (compare West Frisian meau:, mieu:,  meeuw:,  Möwe:), from  'to shout, mew' (compare Middle English mawen: 'to shout, mew', Middle Dutch mauwen:, Middle High German māwen:); akin to Latvian maût: 'to roar', Old Church Slavonic myjati: 'to mew'.

Etymology 2
From mue:, muwe:, and  mue:, from muer:.

Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic

Noun

 * Japanese: 鴎 (カモメ, kamome)
 * Korean: 갈매기 (galmaegi)
 * Latvian: kaija


 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: faoileann

Anagrams

 * wem

Noun
mew


 * 1) widower