A cage for birds; an inclosure; a place of confinement.

[from the noun.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.

More pity that the eagle should be mew'd.

Close mew'd in their sedans, for fear of air.

[L. muto and moto.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt. The hawk mewed his feathers.

Nine times the moon had mew'd her horns--

[L. mugio.] To cry as a cat.

To change; to put on a new appearance.