Lexicographical Neighbors of Meiny
Literary usage of Meiny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1853)
"But the substantive many or meiny (two different spellings of the same sound),
has also in old English another origin and another meaning. ..."
2. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1809)
"Again: " —— if she, or her sad meiny, " Be towards sleep, I '11 wake them. ...
Though the word meiny be now obsolete, the word menial, which is derived from ..."
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