minuel (c.1260)

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minuel (c.1260)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: *5,391b locus; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF:  lieu (*); DMF: ; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
menuel,  menué  

a.

1middle, not the oldest or the youngest
( c.1260; MS: c.1300 )  Un prudhome [...] donne a son menuel fiz partie de sa terre  30

s.

1intermediate one
( 1309 )  la veist .iij. peires de fourches (=gallows) et chescun plus haut de autre, et en le plus court son ael pendre, et en le meunel (l. menuel) (var. mulvuen (l. mulwen ) mulweinmylven (l. myluen ) milou) son pere pendre  Ed II ii 117
one who is neither the oldest or the youngest
( 1292 )  Ausi, si vous volet dire ‘Nent par Jon le eyné’, dites ‘par Jon le menué ou par un autre’  20-21 Ed I 291
2anat.middle finger
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  partes humani corporis numquid nominabo [...] cubitos, palmas, digitos, ungues [...]. Nec preterire volo policem, indicem, medium: (gloss: miuuel (l. minuel)) medicum, auricularem (gloss: le petiz dei) [...]  i 196.4 and ii 126.4
miluein  miluel  minuen 
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