unmew

English edit

Etymology edit

un- +‎ mew

Verb edit

unmew (third-person singular simple present unmews, present participle unmewing, simple past and past participle unmewed)

(transitive) To release from confinement or restraint.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion:
  But let a portion of ethereal dew / Fall on my head, and presently unmew / My soul.

Related terms edit

mews

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “unmew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)