Middle English Dictionary Entry
menuse n. singular & plural
Entry Info
| Forms | menuse n. singular & plural Also menuce, menese, menis(e, meneuse, meneues, men(n)ous, (error) munse. |
| Etymology | OF menuisse, menuse. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. meneu.
1.
Small or young fish of any kind; ?gudgeon(s [quot.: Trin-C.LEDict.].
Associated quotations
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)108/35 : Flee he grete fisshes, but it be a litel of stones fisshes, i. menuse.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)333 : Menuce, fysche: Silurus [Win: Sirulus].
- c1450 Brut-1431(1) (Eg 650)447/30 : Porpas rosted, Munse fryde.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)104 : Menese or loche boiled. Take Menyse or loche, and pike hem faire.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)155/3 : Fyrst, for the menewes, with a lyne of on heyr.
- c1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)171/9 : Þey may be had..with a bleke, like as ye do to þe trowt with a menows.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)587/31 : Guttulus, anglice, Menuse.
- a1475 Herkyn to my tale (Brog 2.1)p.85 : The pekerel and the perche, the mennous and the roche.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)747 : Perche in Iely..whelkes, menuse -- þus we devise.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)819 : Flowndurs, gogeons, muskels, menuce in sewe.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)141 : The servyse of iij cours in the halle. Datys in composte, creyme motley, and poudrid welkys, porpys rostyd, meneuse fryde.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)763/33-4 : Hec menusa, Hic serullus: a menys.