mense
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of mense
1490–1500; variant (north) of mensk, Middle English menske courtesy, honor < Old Norse menska humanity, cognate with Old English menniscu literally, the human state; akin to mensch. See man, -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Little mense o' the cheeks to bite aff the nose.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
They mense little the mouth, that bites off the nose.
From Collection of Scotch Proverbs by Pappity Stampoy
But we hae mense and discretion, and are moderate of our mouths;—but here, frae the kitchen to the ha', it's fill and fetch mair, frae the tae end of the four-and-twenty till the tother.
From Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Sir Walter Scott
What a mense she would be to the town of Selkirk, and to a boot and shoemaker's parlour, as well as to the top of the councillors' seat every Sunday!
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
This is one of the sights that the English go to gaze at, it being new to them not only in deed, but in thought; and even "Augusto mense," there was great resort of them.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
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