These are the meanings of the letters WEMB when you unscramble them.
- Mew (n.)
A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
- Mew (n.)
A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
- Mew (n.)
A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
- Mew (n.)
The common cry of a cat.
- Mew (v. i.)
To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
- Mew (v. i.)
To cry as a cat.
- Mew (v. t.)
To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
- Mew (v. t.)
To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
- Web (n.)
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
- Web (n.)
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
- Web (n.)
A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
- Web (n.)
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
- Web (n.)
A weaver.
- Web (n.)
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
- Web (n.)
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
- Web (n.)
Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
- Web (n.)
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
- Web (n.)
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
- Web (n.)
The bit of a key.
- Web (n.)
The blade of a saw.
- Web (n.)
The blade of a sword.
- Web (n.)
The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
- Web (n.)
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
- Web (n.)
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
- Web (n.)
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
- Web (n.)
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
- Web (n.)
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
- Web (v. t.)
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.