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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mene, n.2 Also: mein(e, meyn. [ME. mene (13–14th c.), thereafter appar. only Sc., f. Mene v.2 Cf. also Man(e n.1 and Mean.] A lament, complaint. — c1475 Wall. iv. 153.
Thar petuous mene as than couth nocht be bett c1500-c1512 Dunb. xliii. 8.
Quhat tyme … Thair menes [M. meynis] thay sowld mak than Id. Maitl. F. xxxii. 81.
The fiche wyfis flet and swore thair menis [: banis] 1562 Q. Kennedy Ressoning 206.
He [Knox] makes ane meine, that I go … to take the suspicion of men … of me 1633 Orkney Witch Trial in Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. V. 544.
The said David … was making mene that he had not luck to get fisch that yeir 1638 Old Dundee I. 388.
[The elderly vicar] being oft times requirit, would propone nothing but only ane mein ‘Vaiked sea’ and that … the bishop … would deprive him of his place
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