Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedie뮠in 驮 oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo      Enzyklopädie-DE Encyclopedie-NL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: mews

  1. mews
    [n] - (British) street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Mews
    Indoor quarters for keeping birds of prey (from the French 'Muer' - to moult).
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20587

  3. Mews
    stabling, in an urban context, usually built behind large private houses, with living accommodation over.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935

  4. Mews
    Mews noun sing. & plural [ Prop. plural of mew . See Mew a cage.] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [ Eng.] « Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back.» Dickens.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/60

  5. mews
    noun street lined with building that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; `she lives in a Chelsea mews`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Mews
    • (n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. mews
    row of stables and coach houses with living quarters above, built in a paved yard behind large London houses of the 17th and 18th centuries. Today ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/81

  8. Mews
    Mews are traditionally rows of former stables converted into residential properties. The ground floor stable area is generally a garage and the living quarters (which would have housed the ostler) are above.
    Found on http://www.spareroom.co.uk/content/info-

  9. Mews
    `Mews` is a primarily British term formerly describing a row of stables, usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a street, behind large city houses, such as those of London, during the 17th and 18th centuries. The word may also refer...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mews

  10. Mews
    (falconry) In falconry, a `mews` is a birdhouse designed to house one or more birds of prey. In falconry there are several mews designs, the freeloft and a traditional mews. Traditional mews usually consist of partitioned spaces designed to keep tethered birds separated with perches for each ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mews



...

12 February 2012

This day in history:
/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,485,243 words from 1122 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
Pierre (3/25)
Arbitrarious (2/0)
portio (2/25)
embryotoxicity (3/0)
Cleveland (2/25)
inferior (2/25)
SFIC (2/0)
Vibes (5/2)
skua (12/7)
port (25/25)
periodontal (2/25)
Meso-Indian (2/0)
eli (12/25)
minor (2/25)
hypochlorous (3/5)
Weetabix (3/1)
metanephrogenic (2/2)
pyrophosphokinases (2/0)
Heteroecious (9/0)
dysaesthesia (2/0)
angiorrhexis (2/0)
CyberARTS (2/0)
docket (10/3)
Bear (25/25)

© Encyclo MMXI
Contact Privacy