Ewe v.

[f. EWE sb.¹]

  † 1.  trans. To yean, give birth to (a lamb). Obs.

1579.  E. K., Gloss. Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Feb., 83. Rather lambes, that be ewed early.

c. 1660.  Hexham, Dutch Dict., Spade geboren, A Lambe Late ewed.

  2.  trans. To give a ‘ewe-neck’ look to.

1848.  G. F. Ruxton, in Blackw. Mag., LXIII. 730. The severities of a prolonged winter … had robbed his bones of fat and flesh … and ‘ewed’ his neck.

  Hence Ewed ppl. a.

1611.  Chapman, Iliad, IV. 52/116. The God of light … To whom a hundred first ew’d lambes, vow thou in holy fire.

  Ewe, obs. form of YEW.