mew

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A cage for hawks, especially when molting.
2. n. A secret place; a hideaway.
3. n. A group of buildings originally containing private stables, often converted into residential apartments.
4. n. A small street, alley, or courtyard on which such buildings stand.
5. v. To confine in or as if in a cage.
6. v. To molt. Used of a hawk.
7. v. To make the high-pitched, crying sound of a cat; meow.
8. n. The crying sound of a cat; a meow.
9. n. A seagull (Larus canus) of northern Eurasia and northwest North America.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A gull; a sea-mew. See cut under gull.
2. To cry as a cat.
3. n. The cry of a cat.
4. To change (the covering or dress); especially, to shed, as feathers; molt.
5. n. A cage for birds while mewing or molting; hence, any cage or coop for birds, especially for hawks.
6. n. Hence An inclosure; a close place; a place of retirement or confinement.
7. n. A place where fowls were confined for fattening.
8. n. plural A stable. See mews.
9. To shut up; confine, as in a cage or other inclosure; immure.
10. An obsolete or dialectal preterit of mow.
11. n. A dialectal variant of mow.
12. n. The herb spignel.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A gull, seagull.
2. n. The crying sound of a cat; a meow.
3. v. of a cat To meow.
4. interj. A cat's cry.
5. n. obsolete A prison, or other place of confinement.
6. n. obsolete A hiding-place; a secret store or den.
7. n. falconry A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
8. n. falconry, in the plural A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
9. v. obsolete To shut away, confine, lock up.
10. v. of a bird To moult.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
2. v. To shed or cast; to change; to molt.
3. v. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. v. To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
7. v. To cry as a cat.
8. n. The common cry of a cat.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls
2. v. cry like a cat
3. n. the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
4. n. the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America