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▪ I. ‖ meum1|ˈmiːəm|
[Latin, neut. of meus mine.]
‘Mine’, ‘that which is mine’, in the phr. meum and tuum: ‘mine and thine’; what is one's own and what is another's. A popular phrase to express the rights of property. Also meum, tuum; meum or tuum.
1594Greene & Lodge Looking-gl. (1598) C iij, Rasni. What, wooe my subiects wife that honoureth me? Radag. Tut, Kings this meum, tuum should not know. 1612Bacon Ess., Judicature (Arb.) 458 For many times the thing deduced to Iudgement, may bee meum et tuum, when the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate. 1627Abbot in Rushw. Hist. Collect. (1659) I. 448 You have allowed a strange Book yonder; which if it be true, there is no Meum or Tuum, no man in England hath any thing of his own. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life iii. (1696) 67 That which is the one's is the other's: their Meums and Tuums are confounded together. 1772Johnson in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 146 They [N. Amer. Indians] are strict observers of meum and tuum. 1847G. F. Ruxton Adv. Mexico 242 Regardless of the laws of meum and tuum. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 82 The distinction between ‘meum’ and ‘tuum’ having been temporarily overlooked.
▪ II. ‖ meum2|ˈmiːəm|
Also anglicized meu, and in Gr. form meon.
[L., a. Gr. µῆον.]
A genus of umbelliferous plants of the family Seselineæ, containing only one species, Meum athamanticum, usually called spignel.
1548Turner Names Herbes (1881) 53 Meum called of the grecians Meon and Meion. 1727Bailey vol. II, Meum, the Herb Mew, wild Dill or Spikenel. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 296 The root[s] of the gout-weed.., of the meum or spignel,..have..been held in esteem. |