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▪ I. mewed, ppl. a.1|mjuːd|
[f. mew v.1 + -ed1.]
Of a bird: That has moulted (once or more).
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1750 Gyrfacouns y-muwed & white stedes & hertes of gresse y wene. 1486Bk. St. Albans a viij b, And iff she be a mewed hawke. 1621Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 20, I..am to send my mewed goshawk to thearle of Bath. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. (1677) 233 Mew'd-hawks, are such which have once or more shifted the Feather. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Hawk.
▪ II. mewed, ppl. a.2|mjuːd|
[f. mew v.2 + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.: Confined in a mew; shut up, concealed. Also with up.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 29 The dung found in the Bartons of mewed Blacke-birdes. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 10 Amongst Mewed Hawkes, some have been found to have lived thirty years. And amongst Wild Hawkes forty years. |