mue
English
Etymology
See mew.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mjuː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /mju/
- Homophones: mew, mu
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb
mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Noun
mue f (plural mues)
- moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
- metamorphosis (of insect)
- sloughing of skin (of reptile)
- casting (of stag)
- breaking of voice
- (literary) transformation
Verb
mue
- inflection of muer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Etymology 2
See mouvoir
Further reading
- “mue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse múgi m.
Noun
mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)
- Alternative form of muge f
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