verb

• (ambitransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  "Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder[…]"
• (transitive) To shape; to form.
  "to hew out a sepulchre"
• (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
  "Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line."

noun

• (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down or hewing.
  "Of whom he makes such hauocke and such hew, / That swarmes of damned soules to hell he sends"

noun

• (obsolete) Hue; colour.
  "[…] while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning dew"
• (obsolete) Shape; form.
  "He taught to imitate that Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew."

name

• (US, historical) Initialism of (US Department of) Health, Education, and Welfare, now HHS.