Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See mute.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th mew, 1.

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  • noun A cage for hawks; a mew.

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Examples

  • Comme cela avait été le cas lors de l'affaire SarkoWeb3, la blosophère s'est maintenant emparée de la triste histoire des menaces reçues par Kathy Sierra, telle une meute affamée et sans cervelle.

    2007 March — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Comme cela avait été le cas lors de l'affaire SarkoWeb3, la blosophère s'est maintenant emparée de la triste histoire des menaces reçues par Kathy Sierra, telle une meute affamée et sans cervelle.

    Disturbed About Reactions to Kathy Sierra’s Post — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Le rusé compère avait fait signe aux camarades des alentours: une meute entière tomba sur la bête fauve et la mit en pièces.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • I keep going one of the first houses in Paris; I have my own meute and écurie; my mistresses are the most famous dancers and singers.

    A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

  • And falling on Francis's first attempt at copying, he was scornful of the whole, and had nearly thrown the matter aside, but when he lit at last on the sentence about burning the meute and carrying off the tercel gentle, his brow grew dark indeed, and his inquiries came thickly one upon the other, both as to Antony Babington and the huckstering woman.

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • "Quand le matelot vient des marais, un feu peut eclater dans la meute et dans la melee" -- "When the sailor lands from the fens, a fire might easily break out in the dog-kennel, and in the confusion" (name could not be read) "could carry off the tercel gentle."

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • "Chenil," we believe, is the true French term for such a thing, and our own word is said to be derived from it -- "meute" meaning "a kennel of dogs," or "a pack of hounds," rather than their dwelling.

    Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Ganley, Villiers et Nihous s'en vont «chasser le Barroso» «en meute»

    EurActiv.com 2009

  • Respublicas, quarum semper unum corpus sub antiquis principibus fuisse declaratur, aliquid discordiae permanere. '] [Footnote 208:' Pomâ meute deposcimus ne suspendatis a nobis mansuetudinis vestrae gloriosissimam caritatem. ']' The rest of their commission will be verbally conveyed to your Piety by the bearers of these letters [209]. '

    The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

  • "La meute," said Francis, "that is their term for the home of us

    Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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