to utter the high-pitched, plaintive sound characteristic of a cat or a gullmew noun[Middle English mewen, of imitative origin]
a cage or building used to keep trained falcons in, esp when they are moulting [Middle English mewe from early French mue from muer to moult, from Latin mutare to change]
(often + up) to confine (somebody) in a restricted stateto keep (a moulting hawk) in a mew verb intranssaid of a trained falcon: to moult [Middle English mewen from mewe: see mew3]