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Mew

verb
(past & past part. mewed; pres. part. mewing)  (Written also meaw, meow)
1.
Cry like a cat.  Synonym: meow.
2.
Utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls.
noun
1.
The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this).  Synonyms: meow, miaou, miaow, miaul.
2.
The common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America.  Synonyms: Larus canus, mew gull, sea mew.



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"Mew" Quotes from Famous Books



... corner. He crouched low; his eyes glowed. The Kitten wandered, sniffing, up to the bars, put its head in, sniffed again, then made toward the feed-pan, to be seized in a flash by the crouching Fox. It gave a frightened "mew," but a single shake cut that short and would have ended Kitty's nine lives at once, had not the negro come to the rescue. He had no weapon and could not get into the cage, but he spat with such copious vigor in the Fox's face that he dropped ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

... young brave," cried the captain, slapping his favorite boy on the shoulder, "you are worth a dozen such girl-boys as your brother. Let him be a kitten and cry mew, if he will, while you climb the topgallant-mast and make ladders ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... waiting for Betsy to bring the lamp. Peter had built himself a comfortable den beneath the table and was having a quiet game of Bears with Mittens, the cat, for his cub—quiet, that is, except for an angry mew now and then from Mittens, who had not enjoyed an easy moment since the arrival of the three ...
— The Wonderful Bed • Gertrude Knevels

... ball, when relatives and friends assembled from far and wide, was the great entertainment given at Headlong Hall from time immemorial, and it was on the morning after the ball that Miss Brindle-Mew Tabitha Ap-Headlong, the squire's maiden aunt, took her nephew aside, and told him it was time he was married if the family was not ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VII • Various

... the cat, as he sprang softly into the room; but the prince did not heed him. "Mew," again said the cat; but again the prince did not heed him. "Mew," said the cat the third time, and he jumped up on ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy


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