Seemew.
mue (third-person singular simple presentmues,present participlemuing,simple past and past participlemued)
- (transitive, obsolete)Alternative spelling ofmew(“tomoult”)
1620,Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, inA Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History ofIonah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […],→OCLC,signature H3, recto:Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / Andmue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride;[…]
FromLatinmūtō, see the verbmuer.
mue f (pluralmues)
- moulting (UK) /molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
- metamorphosis (of insect)
- sloughing of skin (of reptile)
- casting (of stag)
- breaking of voice
- (literary)transformation
mue
- inflection ofmuer:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
Seemouvoir
mue f sg
- femininesingular ofmû
mue
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofmuar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
FromAnglo-Normanmue.
mue
- Alternative form ofmewe(“cage”)
FromOld Frenchmuer.
mue
- Alternative form ofmewen(“to moult”)
FromOld Norsemúgi m.
mue f (definite singularmua,indefinite pluralmuer,definite pluralmuene)
- Alternative form ofmuge f