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seamew|ˈsiːmjuː|
Forms: 5–6 se(e)mewe, 6–7 sea mewe, (7 sea mue), 6– seamew.
[f. sea n. + mew n.1]
The common gull, Larus canus.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 202 The semewe with his fetherys whyte. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xi. xxi, They ben called Alcyones or see mewes. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 184 Seemewes, gulles. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 831 An Iland salt and bare, The haunt of Seales and Orcs, and Sea⁓mews clang. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 86 The chough, the sea⁓mew, the loquacious crow. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. Song. i, The breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. 1890R. Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 149 The yacht, sweeping like a seamew over the..billow. |