mue

See also: mué, Müe, muʻe, and

English

Etymology

See mew.

Pronunciation

Verb

mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) Alternative spelling of mew (to moult)
    • 1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: [] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, [], OCLC 270804816, signature H3, recto:
      Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; []

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mue in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /my/
  • Homophones: mu,

Etymology 1

Latin mūtō, see the verb muer

Noun

mue f (plural mues)

  1. moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
  2. metamorphosis (of insect)
  3. sloughing of skin (of reptile)
  4. casting (of stag)
  5. breaking of voice
  6. (literary) transformation

Verb

mue

  1. inflection of muer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

See mouvoir

Participle

mue f sg

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mue

  1. Alternative form of mewe (cage)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mue

  1. Alternative form of mewen (to moult)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse múgi m.

Noun

mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)

  1. Alternative form of muge f

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