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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1604-1605
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Mang(e, n. (In the phr. to make one's mang which survived in the later dial. only with the sense ‘to join in a chorus or medley of sound’ such as a bird-song, but which possibly existed earlier in some other use of mang n. mixture, OE. ᵹemang n. mixing, intercourse, throng, etc.: see note to Mang v.) — a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 31 (Wr.).
I saw the hurcheon and the hare In hidlings hirpling heere and there To make their morning mange [: strang]
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