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mue

See also: mué, Müe, muʻe, műé, and mü

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Etymology

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See mew.

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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; […]

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Latin mūtō, see the verb muer.

Noun

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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

Verb

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mue

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

Etymology 2

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See mouvoir

Participle

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mue f sg

  1. feminine singular of mû

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Galician

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mue

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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

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mue

  1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

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From Old French muer.

Verb

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mue

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse múgi m.

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

  1. Alternative form of muge f

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