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▪ I. meinie Obs. exc. arch.|ˈmeɪnɪ|
Forms: 3 maynee, meingne, menyeie, 3–4 meigne, 3–5 maine, mayne, meine, meynee, 3–6 menye, meyne, menȝe, 3, 5, 7, 9 menie, 4 meygne, megne, mengȝe, mengne, meynne, meyneȝ, meyney, meinee, 4–5 meignee, meynye, mene, meneyhe, meynȝe, menȝey, menȝhe, meneȝe, 4–6 mayny, 4–7 meny, 4–9 meyny, 5 meneȝee, menne, maygne, menyhe, meneya, meneyay, meyni, 5–6 maynye, 5–9 meynie, Sc. menȝie, 6 mainy, meany(e, meini, meniey, meignye, menyei, 6–7 meiney, 6–8 meiny, 7 meney, meanie, Sc. meinzie, 9 meisny, Sc. mengyie, manzy, 6– meinie.
[a. OF. meyné, mesnie, earlier mesnede = Pr. mesnada, maisnada, mainada (whence Sp. mesnada, manada, It. masnada):—popular Latin type *mansiōnāta, f. L. mansiōn-em (see mansion), whence F. maison house.
In English the word was in some of its applications confused with many n.]
1. A family, household.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 480/3 Seint ypolyt þe Martyr..Þat wuste seint laurence in prisone..And þoruȝh him turnde to cristindom and his maine al-so. a1300Cursor M. 12271 Þan went ioseph and mari bun Wit iesu til a-noiþer tun, Þat meingne was sa mild and meth. 13..E. E. Allit. P. B. 331 Þis meyny of aȝte I schal saue of monnez saulez. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 32 No weddid man owiþ to leue his wife & children & meyne vngouerned. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 98, I sawe neuer a fowler meyne, they [the ape and its young] laye on fowle heye whiche was al be pyssed. 1532G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768) 78 For a man that is at great costes..in his house, and can not gette as moche..as wyll fynde hym and his meyny. 1587Durham Depos. (Surtees) 327, I will command my menyei (which, as this examinate thinketh, he ment his wife and children) that they will be good to the. 1667Cotton Scarron. iv. 105 A Farm lies ready cut and dry'd, Will hold both me, and all my meany.
2. a. A body of retainers, attendants, dependents, or followers; a retinue, suite, train.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3484 Þat so moche folc to him com of kniȝtes ȝonge & olde Þat he nadde noȝt wel war wiþ such menie up to holde. a1300Cursor M. 20579 Þan com ihesus wit his meigne. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2388 Þey sette hym honurable to be, Wiþ fourty knyghtes of meygne. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 135 When he rydes in tyme of peesse with his priuee menȝee. c1400Rom. Rose 7156 Thus Antecrist abyden we, For we ben alle of his meynee. c1415Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 124 Ther all the ryall powere of Frensshemen come aȝenst owre kynge and his litill meyné. 1423Rolls of Parlt. IV. 248/2 For the expens resounable of hir, and of a certein meyne that shuld abide aboute hir. c1460Godstow Reg. (E.E.T.S.) 182 Hys meyny of woluerton sholde haue fre & full power to lede her bestys to the welle. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. xi. 430 Kynge marke rode froward them with alle his mayneal meyny. c1500Gest Robyn Hode 335 in Child Ballads III. 72 Fonde she there Robyn Hode, And al his fayre mene. 15..Chevy Chase 6 Then y⊇ perse owt off banborowe cam, wt him A myghtee meany. 1513Douglas æneis iii. i. 25 Furth sail I,..With my ȝoung son Ascanius and our menȝe. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 35 They summon'd vp their meiney, straight tooke Horse, Commanded me to follow. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 214 Wherto eleaven knights were wittnesses, then of his meiny or houshold seruants. 1728Ramsay To D. Forbes vii, What gars thee look sae big and bluff? Is't an attending menzie? 1904Saintsbury Hist. Crit. III. 426 Titania and her meyny.
†b. Used as a pl.: Servants. Obs.
c1450Bk. Curtasye 604 in Babees Bk., Now let we þes officers be, And telle we wylle of smaller mené. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 252 Þe lady, þe menȝe, grete and small.
†c. God's meinie: applied (a) to the angels; (b) to the poor, as objects of his special care. Obs.
a1300Assump. Virg. (Camb. MS.) 110 He wile senden after þe, Fram heuene adun of his meigne. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) ix. xiv. 367/1 For why wycked doers & synful poore men ben called the leste of goddes menye.
†3. A company of persons employed together or having a common object of association; an army, ship's crew, congregation, assembly, or the like. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 17288 + 440 Ȝit apon þe same day he schewd to þis menȝe. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 97 He gadred grete mayne of alle þat he mot hent. 1375Barbour Bruce xvi. 375 Of archeris a gret menȝhe Assemblit. c1400Destr. Troy 5243 Mony fallyn were fey of þe fell grekes, But mo of the meny, þat mellit hom with. c1400Beryn 1581 For there nas Shippis meyne for auȝt that they could hale That myȝte abuten of the Shipp the thiknes of a skale. 1598Nottingham Rec. IV. 247 To requyre the Burgesses in his Ward to mete a meny of honest Burgesses.
†4. The collection of pieces or ‘men’ used in the game of chess. Obs.
[1322in Rolls Parlt. III. 363 Escheqirs..ove tres peirs meines de cristall, et tables de ivoir, ove la meine d'ivoire et d'eban.] 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 3195 Þe cheker þai oxy & þe meyne. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11396 Meyne for þe cheker Wyþ draughtes queinte of knight & rok. c1400Beryn 1733 The ches was al of yvery, the meyne fressh and newe. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 609/41 Scaccus, the meny of the cheker. c1450Merlin xxi. 362 The pownes, and all the other meyne were golde and yvory fresshly entailled.
5. a. A multitude of persons; chiefly in disparaging use, a ‘crew’, ‘set’. Also, the common herd, the masses.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 454 He..wysed þeroute A message fro þat meyny hem moldez to seche. c1440Alphabet of Tales 121 A grete meneyay of pylgrams. c1440York Myst. xi. 277 Lord, whills we with þis menyhe meve, Mon never myrthe be vs emange. 1529Rastell Pastyme (1811) 268 A meanye of rascall and euyll disposed people. 1529Skelton Dethe Erle Northumb. 46 A mayny of rude villayns made hym for to blede. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1119/2 Mayster Walker and al the meany of them. 1609Day Festivals (1615) Ep. Ded., If we account them not more Religious, then the Meyny, or Multitude, are. 1640R. Brathwait Two Lanc. Lovers 99 One, whom the rest of that miserable meniey..called Spurcina. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 41 A menzie of miscontented puritans. 1788Shirrefs Poems (1790) 346 What gart you pit them [critics] in my head? That menzie, Sir, are a' my dread. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 140 The meikle menzie on ilk side Did break in twa. 1970J. Wain Winter in Hills iv. 361 A speech was now made by McAlister, the Scotch poet in whose ostensible support this meinie was assembled.
†b. (Common) people. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test Love i. vi. (Skeat) l. 145 Notwithstandinge that in the contrary helden moche comune meyny.
†6. Of animals: A herd, drove, flock, etc.; a number, multitude. Obs.
1484Caxton Fables of æsop vi. ix. (1889) 204 Ones amonge a grete meyny of ghees and cranes [a labourer] took a pyelarge. 1522Skelton Why not to Court? 241 A mayny of marefoles. Ibid. 292 They wolde Rynne away and crepe, Lyke a mayny of shepe. 1530Palsgr. 475/1 They can no more skyll of it than a meany of oxen. 1556Olde Anti-christ 12 b, You are muche more worthe than a great meignye of sparrowes.
7. Of things: A number, a numerous collection or aggregation. Obs. exc. Sc.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 294 A grete meneya of palme⁓levis. 1530Palsgr. 244/2 Meny of plantes, plantaige. Ibid. 721/1 As thoughe there were a menye of brokes [F. vng tas de ruisseaux] had their springes there. 1896Barrie Marg. Ogilvy iv. 76 You get no common beef at clubs; there is a manzy of different things all sauced up to be unlike themsels.
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