mue
English
Verb
mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)
- (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /my/
- Homophones: mu, mû
Etymology 1
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mūtō, see the verb muer
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
- first-person singular present indicative of muer
- third-person singular present indicative of muer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of muer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of muer
- second-person singular imperative of muer
Etymology 2
See mouvoir
Verb
mue
- feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir
Anagrams
Further reading
- “mue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman mue.
Noun
mue
- Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)
Etymology 2
From Old French muer.
Verb
mue
- Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)
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