c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1750 (MED) Gyrfacouns y-muwed & white stedes.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. aviij^v And iff she be a mewed hawke.

1533 J. Grenville Let. 21 June in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/3/92) f. 126 I pray your lordschyp yf any Mwed gosshocke come to your handis Reward me w^t hit.

c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 9 At the furst drawinge it is good for a mewed hawke to be caryed in a rufter-hood, and fed therin.

1621 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 20 I..am to send my mewed goshawk to thearle of Bath.

1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 150 Mew'd-Hawks are such which have once or more shifted the Feather.

1683 London Gaz. No. 1799/4 A large black Mayled, whole Feathered, and thorough mewed Falcon.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hawk Those which have chang'd their Feathers once or more, [are] Mew'd Hawks.

1820 J. A. Hillhouse Percy's Masque (rev. ed.) iv. iii. 71 Some mewed eagle That creeps, degraded, round a peasant's croft.

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. iv. 86 Of mewed ostrich feathers.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 29 The dung found in the Bartons of mewed Blacke-birdes.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 63 Amongst Mewed Hawkes, some have beene found, to have lived thirty yeares. And amongst wilde Hawkes, forty yeares.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. iv. 16 If an honest fellow..has the good luck to prevail upon a mew'd-up Lady to countenance her own escape..what an Outcry is generally raised against him!

1876 W. Marston in Dram. & Poet. Wks. 131 Feed scrupulous souls With saws of peace and mercy; wholesome fare For mewed-up women, and sick, bedridden men.