2. Meute was also used in another sense which is translated by the "Master of Game" as _haunts_, probably 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 Normandye" 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 brachez.... 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." "A hare will pass by the same muses until her death or escape" (Blome, p. 92). NUMBLES. M. E. _nombles_, _noumbles_; O. F. _nombles_. The parts of a deer between the thighs, that is to say, the liver and kidneys and entrails. Part, and sometimes the whole of the numbles were considered the right of the huntsman; sometimes the huntsman only got the kidneys, and the rest was put aside with the tit-bits reserved for the King or chief personage (Turb., pp. 128-129). Numbles by loss of the initial letter became umbles (Harrison, vol. i. p. 309), and was sometimes written humbles, whence came "humble pie," now only associated with the word humble. Humble pie was a pie made of the umbles or numbles of the deer, and formerly at hunting feasts was set before the huntsman and his followers.