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Man(e, n.¹ Also: main(e, mayn(e. Also anglicized variants: mon, mone. [North. ME. man (Cursor M.), midl. and south. mone, moon, OE. *mán. Cf. Mene n.², and Mean.] Complaining, lamentation; a complaint, lament.Freq. to mak (one's) (a) (gret etc.) mane with various dependent constructions.(1) ?1438 Alex. ii. 2627.
Freind, said Clarus, lat be thy mane! c1420 Wynt. vii. 152.
He set nowcht by thare mane a myte c1450-2 Howlat 859.
Than rewit thir riallis of that rath mane c1450-2 Ib. 41. a1500 Henr. Fab. 1555 (Bann.).
Wrekand his hurt with sair murnyng and mane a1500 Ib. 2890.
[The mouse] fandit hir defend with mony mane 1535 Stewart 43913. a1568 Bannatyne MS 229 b/1.
All for ane is my mane(b) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 688.
With dulfull mayn retorned thir men of wer c1475 Ib. xi. 1136. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiv. 31.
Behald my mayne and mwrning merwalous 1513 Doug. iii. v. 120. 1546–7 Cal. Sc. P. I. 4.
[There is great] maine [here for a Scots ship … wrecked near Dover](c) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 77.
Quhen Wallace … hard this mannys mon, To comfort him … is he gon a1500 Henr. Orph. 176.
My drery mone [: stone, gone, allone] a1500 Golagros and Gawane 646. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. ii. 432. a1568 Bannatyne MS 264 b/33.
Than said I with ane dolerus mone, Ȝe brek my hairt c1590 Fowler I. 184/5. a1595 Cullen Chron. Aberd. 69.
Thair, melode and myrthe, Heir, mesare and mone(2) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxv. 224.
Thai … fand hyme ded. Than mad thai man a1400 Ib. xxxi. 216.
Hyr fadir than … For his douchtir mad gret mane c1420 Wynt. vii. 1424 (W).
The King Henry … in his letteris maid this mane That the pepill of Irland [etc.] a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 13. a1500 Ib. 1256.
[He] maid a sary mane a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 101. a1538 Abell 45 a.
The Britonaris maid thare mane to Sanct Germond … schawand quhow the Saxonis had brokin thare trewis a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS lxxx. 23.
I mak my mane as ȝe may heir, God gif I wer wedo now c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 906. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 7783.
Sen ȝe haue maid ȝour first mane to me, I mon ȝow help a1568 Scott iii. 42. a1568 Ib. xxv. 28. 1590 Burel Pilgr. i. xxxvi.a1700 Mare of Colinton in Watson's Coll. i. 50.(b) 1375 Barb. v. 175 (E).
The king sichand thus maid his mayn 1375 Ib. xv. 235. a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 688, xviii. 938, xxvi. 1137. c1420 Wynt. iv. 620.
Off the skayth … He maid bot lytill dule or mayne c1420 Ib. ii. 1439 (C). c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v. 238. a1500 Golagros and Gawane 796. 1511 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 108.
Ane of your fermouris … makis ane rycht hevy main that he sould be sa lang wnder the sentens 1533 Boece ii. vii. 70. 1547 Ex. Processes No. vi. p. 2 (Hope v. Tod & Robertson).
He herd George Tod makand his mayne & lamentatioun a1585 Arbuthnot Maitland Quarto MS xlii. 161.
For this warldlie troubill mak na maine(c) a1500 Henr. Orph. 133.
The king … to his harp thusgate he maid his mone [: stone] a1500 Id. Test. Cress. 406. a1550 Murning Maiden 4, 16. 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 173. c1552 Id. Mon. 5486. c1550 Rolland Court of Venus ii. 405. a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS clxxix. 8.
[Heart,] Forȝeit this warldillis wraichitnes And se for it thow mak no mon [: alon] 1567 Satirical Poems iii. 3.
Ane bony boy was soir makand his mone; His sory sang was oche and wallaway 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 62. 1568 Cal. Sc. P. II. 451.
Having there made my mone and complaint of these rebellis a1578 Pitsc. II. 280/26.
Thair was maid gret mon for him for he was ane captane of the horsmen 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 470.
To heir the mone the pure folk makkis, … Cryand, ‘A wengance from the hewin [etc.]’ 1622 Criminal Trials III. 527.
Making … ane grit mone for the bairnes seiknes