Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confine in a mew or cage; mew; coop up; cause to shrink out of sight. Also enmew, inmew.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To mew or coop up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
mew orcoop up.
Etymologies
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Alteration of earlier immew.
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Examples
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III. i.91 (69,1) [follies doth emmew] Forces follies to lie in cover without daring to show themselves.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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1305: Nips youth i'th head, and follies doth emmew
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