menseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /mɛns/

名詞

mense (countable and uncountable, plural menses)

1. Property, owndom; possessions.
2. (UK, dialect) Decency; propriety; civility.
   • 1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham, page 185:

     ... But never a soul had the mense to come near them, […]

   • 1842, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Information for the People, page 796:

     Little mense to the cheeks to bite aff the nose […]

   • 1871, Henry Scott Riddell, The Poetical Works of Henry Scott Riddell, page 141:

     For she had baked a crumpie cake And butter scones, for mense's sake, To entertain her lodger.

   • 1895, William Dunbar, Dunbar: Being a Selection from the Poems of an Old Makar, page 31:

     Be seen with men of mense, but turn aside From swicks and sweeps, the silly and the low  […]

   • 1904, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway, page 126:

     ... ye'll hae the sense and the mense to keep a calm sough, […]

3. (UK, dialect) A large amount.
   • 1841, Richard Winter Hamilton, Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse, page 356:

     There is not a mense of snow in "smoky Leeds,"

   • 1857, James Stewart, Sketches of Scottish Character, and Other Poems. The Late James Steward. With a Memoir of the Author, page 22:

     He has a mense o' pure nonsense,

派生語

• menseful
• menseless

動詞

mense (third-person singular simple present menses, present participle mensing, simple past and past participle mensed)

1. To adorn, bring honour to; grace.

アナグラム

• Semen, menes, mesen, mesne, neems, semen

名詞

mēnse

1. ablative singular of mēnsis

Participle

mēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of mēnsus

アナグラム

• semen