Definition of "pue"

pue

/pjuː/

verb
third-person singular simple present pues, present participle puing, simple past and past participle pued
1. (dated, intransitive) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.
  Quotations
  The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,