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Memphian
(Mem"phi*an) a. Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as,
Memphian darkness.
Men
(Men) n., pl. of Man.
Men
(Men), pron. [OE. me, men. "Not the plural of man, but a weakened form of the word man itself."
Skeat.] A man; one; — used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one
or they. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
Men moot give silver to the poure friars.
Chaucer.
A privy thief, men clepeth death.
Chaucer. Menaccanite
(Me*nac"can*ite) n. [From Menaccan, in Cornwall, where it was first found.] (Min.) An
iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive,
but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
Menace
(Men"ace) n. [F., fr. L. minaciae threats, menaces, fr. minax, - acis, projecting, threatening,
minae projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. Amenable, Demean, Imminent, Minatory.] The
show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to
come.
His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.
Milman.
The dark menace of the distant war.
Dryden.
Menace
(Men"ace) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Menaced (ast); p. pr. & vb. n. Menacing ] [OF. menacier, F.
menacer. See Menace, n.]
1. To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to
threaten; — usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.
My master . . . did menace me with death.
Shak. 2. To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.
By oath he menaced
Revenge upon the cardinal.
Shak. Menace
(Men"ace), v. i. To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
Who ever knew the heavens menace so?
Shak. Menacer
(Men"a*cer) n. One who menaces.
Menacingly
(Men"a*cing*ly), adv. In a threatening manner.
Ménage
(||Mé`nage") n. See Manage.
Ménage
(||Mé`nage") n. [See Menagerie.] A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] Addison.
Menagerie
(Men*ag"er*ie) n. [F. ménagerie, fr. ménager to keep house, ménage household. See Menial,
Mansion.]
1. A piace where animals are kept and trained.
2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.
