Definition of "mewl"

And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, […]

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling, white-faced cat!

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844

My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.

2007, Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley, page 11

There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.

1995, Lídia Jorge, Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa, transl., The Murmuring Coast, page 89

I let out another moaning mewl, biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.

2009, Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys, page 61

The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.

2010, Chris Wooding, Malice, page 15