Definition of mew

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Mew (n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural..

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Parasang :: Parasang (n.) A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles..
Proscenium :: Proscenium (n.) The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework..
Maddish :: Maddish (a.) Somewhat mad.
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Wax :: Wax (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite..
Sostenuto :: Sostenuto (a.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted..
Virginal :: Virginal (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals..
Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..
Style :: Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax..
Shield :: Shield (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses..
Step :: Step (v. i.) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position..
Transmew :: Transmew (v. t. & i.) To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.
Picturesquish :: Picturesquish (a.) Somewhat picturesque.
Ctenophora :: Ctenophora (n. pl.) A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles somewhat resemble combs..
Viscoidal :: Viscoidal (a.) Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2..
Mew :: Mew (n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks..
Romeward :: Romeward (a.) Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church..
Subovate :: Suboval (a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval.
Tartish :: Tartish (a.) Somewhat tart.
Lobe :: Lobe (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
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