mue

See mew.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mjuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mju/
• Homophones: mew, mu
• Rhymes: -uː

mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)

1. (transitive, obsolete) Alternative spelling of mew (“to moult”)
   • 1620, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Sect[ion] 10”, in A Feast for Wormes. Set Forth in a Poeme of the History of Ionah, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Richard Moore, […], →OCLC, signature H3, recto:

     Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]

• “mue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• EMU, MEU, Meu, UME, Ume, emu, meu, ume

• IPA^(key): /my/
• Homophones: mu, mû

From Latin mūtō, see the verb muer.

mue f (plural mues)

1. moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
2. metamorphosis (of insect)
3. sloughing of skin (of reptile)
4. casting (of stag)
5. breaking of voice
6. (literary) transformation

mue

1. inflection of muer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

See mouvoir

mue f sg

1. feminine singular of mû

• “mue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ému

mue

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of muar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Anglo-Norman mue.

mue

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

From Old French muer.

mue

1. Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)

From Old Norse múgi m.

mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)

1. Alternative form of muge f

• emu