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▪ I. mien, n.1 Only literary.|miːn|
Forms: 6 men(e, 6–7 meane, 6–8 mine, 7 meine, 7–8 meen, mein, 7– mien.
[Prob. orig. an aphetic form of demean n.; afterwards partly assimilated in sense and form to F. mine, expression or aspect of countenance, hence gen. look, appearance, whence G. miene in the same sense.
The origin of F. mine is uncertain; connexion with Rom. minare (F. mener) to lead, is impossible. A Celtic origin has been suggested: cf. Breton min muzzle, beak, Welsh min lip, Cornish mein, men lip, mouth, Irish men mouth.]
The air, bearing, carriage or manner of a person, as expressive of character or mood.
1513Douglas æneis viii. xi. 20 Lyk as he had dyspyt and bostand men. Ibid. xii. Prol. 210 To hant bawdry and onlesum mene. 1593J. Eliot Fruits 167 He is an Alchymist by his mine [F. mine]. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ix. 11 Her rare demeanure, which him seemed So farre the meane of shepheards to excell, As that [etc.]. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 158 The Princesse, who had now converted her widdowly meane into fresh teares of conjugall affection. 1713Steele Englishman No. 1. 2 It is a Jest..to talk of amending the Mein and Air of a Cripple. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 829 See..Fops at all corners, lady-like in mien. 1865Trollope Belton Est. v, He could assume a look and mien that were almost noble. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 174 Gordon's downcast mien did not change.
†b. transf. Appearance (of a thing). Obs.
a1641Suckling Lett. Wks. (1646) 60 Nothing, Madam, has worse Mine than counterfeit sorrow. 1684Burnet Th. Earth I. i. iii. 31 Then what can have more the figure and meen of a ruine, than Crags and Rocks, and Cliffs. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. 18 Some..had..Metallick or Mineral Matter..insinuated into their substance..so as to disguise them very much, and give them a face and mien extremely unlike to that of those Shells [etc.].
¶c. Expression (of the face). Obs. rare. [After F. mine du visage.]
1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 196 The mien of his face conjoyned with the posture of his body betrayed such a pitch of veneration and worship, as [etc.]. 1697Bentley Phal. xiii. 51 The same word is inverted to a new sense and notion; which in tract of time makes as observable a change in the air and features of a language, as Age makes in the lines and mien of a Face. 1699Ibid. Pref. 96 Another happy phrase, which he [Boyle] says, I have newly minted, is the Meen of a Face; which as he takes it, is much the same thing with the Behaviour of a Look or the Carriage of a Smile... Meen does not signifie behaviour, even when it's spoken of the whole Person, but the Air and Look that results from it.
d. Phrases (chiefly Gallicisms). † with full mien, undisguised (obs.). † to make good mien upon, to put a good face upon (obs.). to make (a) mien to do or of doing (something), to pretend to do or make a show of doing (something).
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, xlix, That Masque put off, she comes in wth full Meine. 1683Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 457 The Court there were surpriz'd,..but made good Mien upon it, took it gently. 1711Blackader Diary 25 July, The French made a mien to oppose us. 1851Gallenga Italy 253 The Austrians made mien of holding out to the last.
▪ II. mien, n.2|miːn|
[Chinese, lit. = wheat flour.]
Wheat flour noodles. (Cf. chow mein.)
1934in Webster. 1936P. Fleming News from Tartary v. ix. 235 At noon they woke me for a meal of mien and boiled vegetables. 1950R. Alley Leaves from Sandan Notebk. 46 They gave him a meal of mien. 1956B. Y. Chao How to cook & eat in Chinese xix. 218 Wheat is eaten more than rice as the staple food... When it is eaten wet, it is in the form of mien, or unraised noodles. 1971N. Froud Far Eastern Cooking for Pleasure 82 Mien, Chinese noodle or wun tun paste. This dough is used for Chinese noodles, wun tun and various other patties and dumplings.
▪ III. † mien, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. mien n.1]
refl. To comport oneself (in a specified way). Cf. demean v.1 6.
c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 354 Methinks I see him looking upon them, and miening himself as angry with them. |