Middle English Dictionary Entry
meuen v.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | meuen v.(1) Also meu(e, mue, muwe, mwe(n. Forms: ppl. mivinge; p.ppl. meued, mued, mwyd, imuwed. |
| Etymology | OF müer |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a hawk: to mew, molt, shed its plumage; ppl. meued, as adj.: that has molted at least once; molted, mewed [see also hauk 1. (c)]; (b) of deer: ~ here hedes (hornes), to cast or shed their antlers; (c) of persons: to change (color); change color or complexion.
Associated quotations
a
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1738 : An c of gyrfacouns [F faucons mues] y asky bo y-muwed ouer ȝere.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1750 : Gyrfacouns y-muwed & white stedes.
- (1472) Paston (Gairdner)5.152 : Send..me my mwyd gosshawk in hast, or rather then fayle, a sowyr hawke.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)19 : If he be fedde after here luste, he schall be mewyd in the begynnynge of auguste..seke hauke schal neuer wel mewe.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)20 : The moste flesch þat woll make here mewe..is the flesch of an enede.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)21 : Yeue the hennes to thy hauke, and he schal sone mewe. Whose wolle that his mewe hawk mew not ne lete falle noon his fethrs: Bere him on fiste al þe yere longe.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)21 : Loke þat he fle not tyl he be clene enseymyd, wheþer he be mewyd oþer an eyas hawke.
b
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)16 : Þei gadere hem to togydere ii or iii..hertes..þat þei mve [Dgb: mewe] here hornes, and comonly some rathere þan some oþer..and þan þei mwen here hedes and lattere commeþ to good poynt..whan þei han mewed [Dgb: meweþ] here heuedes, þei taken þe stronge buskes as prevely as þei may til here heuedes be woxen aȝene.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)24 : Whan þei wiþdrawe from þe bokeyng, þei mwethe her hedes, for men shuld fynde but fewe Roo buckes..that þe ne haue mwed her heedes by alhalowtide.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)25 : For alle þat þei mwe here hedes they..ne repayren not here heere in to þe newe gras tyme.
c
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1258 : He gan hire humbly to saluwe With dredful chere and oft his hewes muwe.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)109/10 : Ȝif þe chyld bee deed with-inne þe woman, þanne been þeese tokynis..sche schall hawe gret peyne..sche may ewyl goo, euirmore mivinge.
2.
To cause (a hawk) to molt.
Associated quotations
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)19 : Many men deuysiden how they myght hawkes mewe.
- a1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)20 : To mewe an hawke blyue: Hastely to mewe an hauke I schall tell verray medecyne that þu schalt leue.
3.
To confine (sb.), mew up (sb.).
Associated quotations
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)85/30 : Euery woman that disobeyed..her husbonde..shulde be mued [F seroit..en mue] all a yere..and kept from the communicacion of all peple.