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Encyclopedia Britannica



MEW

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 316 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MEW . (I) An imitative word, also spelled miaow, representing the cry of a cat or of sea-birds. The name mew, usually sea-mew, as applied to the Lanus canus, or common sea-
gull
 , is, according to
Skeat
 , also imitative. As the name of the sea-bird it appears in Du. meeuw, Ger. Mowe, and other
languages
 . (2) (Through Fr. muer, from Lat. mutare, to
change
 ), a
term
  originally applied in French to the moulting of a hawk or falcon, and then to the caging of the bird during that period; thus " to mew up " has come to mean to confine. The
English
  word chiefly survives in the plural form mews, applied to a
stable
 -yard, coach-houses, stalls for horses, and living
accommodation
 , found in narrow streets in large towns. This use was due to the Royal Mews at Charing
Cross
 , where the royal
hawks
  were kept from 1377 to 1537, when the building became the royal stables.


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