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

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

 leaves his haunts." If a deer was harboured in a good 

 country for hunting he was also called " En belle meute " 

 (D'Yauville, voc. Meute). 



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

 mandye " answers 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 was also used in Old French in the same 

 way as in English. 



Twici says : Ore vodroi ioe savoir quantez des betes sunt 

 meuz de lymer, e quanz des bestes 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." 



