Definition of "mews" []

• An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. (noun)
• A place where birds of prey are housed. (noun)
• Plural form of mew. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew. (verb)

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• "I am living over a mews -- over a _mews_ with twelve pounds and a few shillings, and then _nothing_ -- nothing at all. ""
• "The word mews dates back to Henry VIII's hawks, which were "mewed", or caged."
• "Two hundred years later, bluff King Hal would turn out the hawks to make room for his horses; but as yet the word mews had its proper signification of a place where hawks were mewed or confined."