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† inˈmew, v. Obs. rare.
[? f. in-1 + mew v.]
trans. ? To immew, to mew or coop up; in quot., app., ‘To cause to lie close and keep concealed, as hawk in mew’.
So this and the equivalent emmew, in Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 91, are explained by the Rt. Hon. D. H. Madden in Diary of Master William Silence (1897) 302, Note2, in opposition to the conjecture of some that the latter is a blundered spelling of enew.
a1625Beaum. & Fl. Knt. of Malta ii. ii, I have seen him scale As if a Falcon had run up a trainee, Clashing his war⁓like pynions, his steel'd curasse, And at his pitch inmew the Town below him. |
