Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Transmew \Trans*mew"\, v. t. & i. [F. transmuer, L. transmutare.
   See {Transmute}.]
   To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic]
   --Chaucer. Spenser.

         To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful
         forester.                                --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.