Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cry as a cat; mew.

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

  • intransitive verb To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.
  • noun The crying of a cat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated The cry of a cat.
  • verb intransitive, dated To give the cry of a cat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)

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Examples

  • So Mother Sub-Prioress will spit out a curse upon the viands; or Sister Mary Rebecca will miaul over them like an old cat that sees a tom in every shadow, though all toms have long since fled at her approach.

    The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century 1891

  • "` Well, 'says he, ` I heard her miaul, and when I awoke I think I seed two eyes looking at me.'

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

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