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▪ I. † mank, n.1 Sc. Obs.
[app. a. F. manque, f. manquer to lack.]
Want.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxxi. 12 He that hes for his awin genȝie Ane plesand prop, but mank or menȝie, And schuttis syne [etc.]. 1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xxiii, They drank, Till..in their maws there was nae mank. 1776D. Herd Scottish Songs Gloss., Mank, a want.
▪ II. † mank, n.2 Obs.
(See quot.)
1683Tryon Way to Health 284 Those fiery Steems [in food], which are of an hot griping windy Nature, and causing a Mank or Scurvey in the Blood.
▪ III. † mank, a. Obs. Chiefly Sc.
Also 6 manke, 7 manc(k.
[a. OF. manc, manque:—L. mancus maimed.]
Maimed, mutilated, defective.
1513Douglas æneis v. Prol. 51 His febill prois bene mank and mutilait. 1559Bp. Scot in Strype Ann. Ref. I. ii. App. vii. 410 The churche of Christe was not perfecte, but rather a manke bodye without a head. 1658J. Durham Exp. Rev. xiii. v. (1660) 570 There is one thing yet to be cleared, without which all that is said seemeth to be manck. 1659Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. iii. 54 If the Bishops sit as a Third-estate, then Statutes made without them are manc and defective. 1722Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 622 When that mank volume comes over, I shall send one complete. 1723McWard Contendings Pref. 12 Mr. Wodrow in his large, but mank and partial History [etc.].
▪ IV. mank, v. Obs. exc. Sc.|mæŋk|
[? f. mank a.; cf. late (chiefly Frankish) L. mancāre to mutilate, f. mancus: see mank a.]
trans. To maim, mangle, mutilate.
a1400–50Alexander 4100 Bot alto-mankid hire with maces & mellis of Iren. c1440Promp. Parv. 325/1 Mankkyn, or maynyn, mutilo. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 307 The myddyll off ane he mankit ner in twa. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. xcii, Thay wretchis..That honour mankit and honestie mischeuit. 1573Satir. Poems Reform. xl. 322 Let nouther lufe of friend, nor feir of fais, Mufe ȝow to mank ȝour Message. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 133 Ordour may be taken with them who hes mutilated and manked the Kirk's Registers. 1731Plain Reasons for Presbyterians dissenting 116 It was past into an Act very quickly, lam'd and mank'd as it was. 1825–80Jamieson, Mank..2. To spoil or impair in any way.
Hence manked ppl. a. (whence ˈmankedly adv., in a mutilated fashion; † ˈmankedhead, disabled condition), ˈmanking vbl. n.
a1300Cursor M. 27884 Quen [man] es ouerlaid wit drunkenhede, þan in his mankidhed,..es turnd al into best state. c1440Promp. Parv. 325/1 Mankynge, or maymynge, mutilacio. 1513Douglas æneis x. vi. 117 The rycht arm, from the schulder al to rent, Apon the mankyt sennonys hyngis by. 1553Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 171 Thou sall understand, that thir wordis ar mankitlie allegit. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 143 With mightie, manked, mangled meiter. 1671True Nonconf. 288 Its mancking and confounding of Holy Scripture. |