mew1
  
  v.
 (of a cat or gull) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise.
n.
 a mewing noise.
Etymology
  ME: imitative.
 
  
    
mew2
  
  n.
 a cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.
v.
   - (of a trained hawk) moult.
- confine (a moulting trained hawk) to a mew.
- 
(often mew someone up)
 confine in a restricting place or situation.
Etymology
  ME: from OFr. mue, from muer ‘to moult’, from L. mutare ‘to change’.