mue

See also: mué, Müe, mu'e, and mü

English

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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French

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

Etymology 1

Latin mūtō, see the verb muer

Noun

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

mue

  1. first-person singular present indicative of muer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of muer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muer
  5. second-person singular imperative of muer

Etymology 2

See mouvoir

Verb

mue

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir

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Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mue

  1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mue

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