Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
- The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
- (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.
- The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
- (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
- (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.
- (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
- (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
- (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
Verbi
- (intransitive, slang) To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
- (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
- (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
- (of a bird) To moult.
- (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.
- (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
- (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.
Huudahdus
- A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
- A gull's or buzzard's cry.
- (archaic) An exclamation of disapproval; boo.
Esimerkit
- A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace [...].
- 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.
- 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.
- To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall [...].
- More pity that the eagle should be mewed.
- Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.
- The hawk mewed his feathers.
- Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.
- Kelly awoke at his accustomed time, thirty minutes before sunrise, to the mewing of gulls and saw the first dull glow on the eastern horizon.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | mewed |
| Imperfekti | mewed |
| Partisiipin preesens | mewing |
| Monikko | mews |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | mews |