mews

Etymology 1

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

noun

1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
   What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? / No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it. 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXIII
   It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people. 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106
   It was here in the kitchen, in the passage In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…]. 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II
   It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery. 1945 September and October, “The Origin of the Euston Hotel”, in Railway Magazine, page 266
2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.

Etymology 2

Plural noun, see mew.

noun

1. plural of mew

Etymology 3

See mew.

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mew