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Definition of Emmewed
1. emmew [v] - See also: emmew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emmewed
Literary usage of Emmewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"So long as this process lasted, while the birds were casting their feathers, they
were kept close, mewed up, or emmewed. But in the passage just quoted this ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1872)
"So long as this process lasted, while the birds were casting their feathers, they
were kept close, mewed up, or emmewed. But in the passage just quoted this ..."
3. The Victory: Poems of Triumph by Charles Augustus Keeler (1916)
"... I am no penitent In hairy coat; No faster, no ascetic I, No mortifier of the
flesh, No monk in lonely cell emmewed aloof from life. ..."
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