mew

A dog would bark; a kitten would mew; a parrot would say "Pardon!"

He brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.

Mew-hew-she-kaw, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation.

How they would mew over my delinquencies, and what scratches I should get from their velvet-shod claws!

The Black Cat gave vent to a single Mew,—a most unnatural sound for a mouser,—it seemed as it were mewed through a cow's horn!