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MEW . (I) An imitative word, also spelled miaow, representing the cry of a See also:

cat or of See also:

sea-birds. The name mew, usually sea-mew, as applied to the Lanus canus, or See also:

COMMON

common sea-See also:

gull, is, according to See also:

SKEAT, WALTER WILLIAM (1835– )

Skeat, also imitative. As the name of the sea-See also:

BIRD

bird it appears in Du. meeuw, Ger. Mowe, and other See also:

LANGUAGES

languages. (2) (Through Fr. muer, from See also:

LAT

Lat. mutare, to See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change), a See also:

TERM

term originally applied in See also:

French to the moulting of a See also:

HAWK (O. Eng. hafoc or heafoc, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch havik, Ger. Habicht; the root is hab-, haf-, to hold, cf. Lat. accipiter, from capere)

hawk or See also:

falcon, and then to the caging of the bird during that See also:

period; thus " to mew up " has come to mean to confine. The See also:

ENGLISH

English word chiefly survives in the plural See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form See also:

MEWS, PETER (1619-1706)

mews, applied to a See also:

STABLE

stable-yard, See also:

COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

coach-houses, stalls for horses, and living See also:

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation, found in narrow streets in large towns. This use was due to the Royal Mews at Charing See also:

CROSS

Cross, where the royal See also:

HAWKS, FRANCIS LISTER (1798-1866)

hawks were kept from 1377 to 1537, when the See also:

BUILDING

building became the royal stables.

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