noun

• (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.
  "A daungerous and detestable place, To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace […]"

noun

• (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
• (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
  "Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew."
• (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
• (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
  "A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances."

verb

• (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
  "More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty."
• (of a bird) To moult.
  "The hawk mewed his feathers."
• (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
• (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.

noun

• (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.