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the place the deer usually moves in. G. says : " II prendra 

 congé de sa meute^'' and the "Master of Game"" has : "he 

 leaves his haunts." If a deer vv^as harboured in a good 

 country for hunting he w^as also called " En belle meute " 

 (D'Yauville, voc. Meute), 



It was in this sense that the "Seneschal de Nor- 

 mandye " answ^ers the question of his royal mistress about 

 the stag he himself had harboured that morning ; he tells 

 her the stag was En belle meute et pays fort, 



3. Meute, mute, a number of hounds, now called a 

 pack or kennel of hounds or a cry of hounds. 



MEW, Mue^ to shed, cast, or change. "The hart 

 mews his horns," the deer casts his head, or sheds his 

 antlers. From the French muer^ and the Latin mutare^ 

 to change, of hawks to moult. 



MOVE, Meu, Meue, mewe, meeve, old forms of 

 move. To start a hart signified to unharbour him, to 

 start him from his lair. 



G. de F. says : Allons le laisser courre ; but the word 

 meu or meve ws-S also used in Old French in the same 

 way as in English. 



Twici says : Ore vodrot ioe savoir quantez, des betes sunt 

 meu% de lymer^ e quanx des testes sunt trouez des bradiez, 

 , , . Sire, touz ceaus qe sunt enchaces ; sunt meuz de lymer, 

 E tous ceaus enquillez sunt trovez de brachez. (Now I 

 would wish to know how many beasts are moved by a 

 lymer and how many beasts are found by the braches. 

 — Sir, all those which are chased are moved by a 

 lymer. And all those which are hunted up are found by 

 braches.) (Line 18 ; Tristan., i. 4337 ; Partonopeus de 

 Blois, 607.) 



MUSE, Meuse, An opening in a fence through 

 which a hare or other animal is accustomed to pass. 

 An old proverb says : " 'Tis as hard to find a hare 

 without a muse, as a woman without scuse." 



