Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. (Bot.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. (Zoöl.) See Emu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + mew. Cf. Immew. ] To mew or coop up. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Emmew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Enter- + mew to molt. ] (Zoöl.) A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. [ 1913 Webster ]

A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

{ } adv. [ AS. hāmweard. ] Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).
Syn. -- prep, preparation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Hence: [ fig. ] Studies or other preparatory work done prior to some activity; -- usually used of preparations for activities of significance or consequence for the performer; as, the candidate didn't do her homework well and was outclassed in the debate. [ PJC ]

3. Paid work done at home, especially piecework. [ PJC ]

n. A person who works at home for pay. [ PJC ]

v. t. See Emmew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf.Emmew, Immew. ] To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [ R. ] “Inmew the town below.” Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. m&unr_;w, akin to D. meeuw, G. möwe, OHG. m&unr_;h, Icel. mār. ] (Zool.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mewing. ] [ OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See Move, and cf. Mew a cage, Molt. ] To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now everything doth mew,
And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt, mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d Mew. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From Mew a cage. ] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. [ 1913 Webster ]

More pity that the eagle should be mewed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen. ] To cry as a cat. [ Written also meaw, meow. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The common cry of a cat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Mewled p. pr. & vb. n. Mewling. ] [ Cf. F. miauler to mew, E. mew to cry as a cat. Cf. Miaul. ] To cry, as a young child; to squall. [ Written also meawl. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that mewls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Prop. pl. of mew. See Mew a cage. ] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of sweet, juicy apple. [ Written also pomwater. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , v. t. & i. To remove. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A gull; the mew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps for ice-mew. ] (Zool.) (a) small European merganser (Mergus albellus) which has a white crest; -- called also smee, smee duck, white merganser, and white nun. (b) The hooded merganser. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. [ 1913 Webster ]

These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person or thing of importance; a somebody. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am somewhat. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In some degree or measure; a little. [ 1913 Webster ]

His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. At some indefinite time. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. “Somewhere nigh at hand.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Once; for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile
There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. To some indeterminate place; to some place or other. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ F. transmuer, L. transmutare. See Transmute. ] To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + mew to confine. ] To release from confinement or restraint. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]