▪ I. † mone, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹemána, 3 ymone, imone, man, 3–4 mone.
[OE. ᵹemána wk. masc.:—OTeut. type *gamainon-, cogn. w. *gamainjo- common: see mean a.1]
1. Companionship; sexual intercourse. Cf. mene.
| a 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. viii. [ix.] (1890) 120 Þa he ærest his ærendwrecan sende..& þisse fæmnan ᵹemanan bæd. c 1205 Lay. 25916 Ne mihte þat maiden his mone i-þolien. a 1225 St. Marher. 13 Ant heom i folhi neodelukest þæt cunnið to beon cleane wiðuten monnes man ant fleoð flesches fulðen. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6359 So nis it noȝt quaþ þe king uor mi kinedom is ymone [v.r. in mone] Vor an felawe ich abbe þer to. c 1315 Shoreham i. 1690 And ȝif hys make mone craueþ. Ibid. 1763 Bot ȝif þer ulesches y-mone be Folȝynde. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 29 He was i-bore of þe mayde Marie by vertu of God wiþ oute mannys mone [L. non humano semine]. |
2. A companion.
| 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6436 Þo he was of al engelond king wiþoute mone. a 1300 K. Horn 560 (Camb. MS.) Aþulf was his mone. |
▪ II. † mone, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
[? a. ON. móna ‘mammy’.]
An old woman, a crone.
| 1390 Gower Conf. I. 97 He sende up for the lady sone, And forth sche cam, that olde Mone. |
▪ III. mone, n.3
(məʊn)
[ad. mod.L. mona, the specific name, or its source Pg. mona: see mona. Cf. F. mone (Buffon).]
= mona.
| 1868 Museum Nat. Hist. I. 30 The mone..is usually brought to Europe from Senegal. |
▪ IV. † mone, v. Obs.
Forms: 3 mune-n, 3–4 mun, 3 mon, 4 monne, 3–5 mone.
[a. ON. muna to remember (a preterite-present, 1 and 3 sing. man, 1 pl. munom, pa. tense munða, munda), etymologically identical, and in most of its forms coincident, with munu to intend (see mun v.).
The equivalent OE. munan to think, consider, is rare exc. in the compounds ᵹemunan (see i-mune v.), ofmunan to recollect, onmunan to consider; it is unlikely that the ME. verb is of native origin, as the examples are all from dialects with Scandinavian admixture. For the root and the cognates in other Teut. and Indogermanic langs., see mind n.1]
1. trans. To remember, bear in mind. Also intr. (const. of).
| c 1220 Bestiary 370 in OE. Misc. 12 Ðe hertes costes we oȝen to munen [rime sunen = shun]. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 558 Noe and hise ðre sunen, Sem, Cam, Iaphet, if we riȝt munen, And here foure wifes woren hem wið. Ibid. 2409 So ðinked euerilc wis man..ðe of adames gilte muneð. a 1300 E.E. Psalter lxv. 5 Comes and sees, goddes werkes mones. a 1300 Cursor M. 8384 Bot if þou þar-of wil mone, sir king Will i wat þat þou me hight. Ibid. 23927 Leuedi [Mary]..giue me grace..Mi sinnes to bete..Þi suns ded to mon on ai. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 7673 Yn a prouerbe of olde Englys..Þat ȝougþe wones, yn age mones. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 657 Child..How were þou fram rohand lorn? Monestow neuer in lede? c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4811 [Androcheus] preied hym ‘þat he wolde mone Þat he was his broþer sone’. 1375 Barbour Bruce xix. 526 But othir dedis nane war donne That gretly is apone till monne. |
b. intr. To make remembrance. Const. on, for.
| a 1425 Cursor M. 8252 (Trin.) Of cercles þat he toke awey Offringe he made to mone on ay. a 1440 Sir Eglam. 1008 (Lincoln MS.) He gafe thame [lands] for to lyfe appone, For Cristabelle saule to mone. |
2. To mention, tell of. Also absol. and intr. const. of.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 9233 Iechonias ȝe herd me mun [other texts mone], Salatiel he had to sun. a 1300 Ibid. 9519 Þis ilk king þat i of mon He had an anlepe son. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xxxii. 92, Y wole mone my song on wham that hit ys on y-long. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 214 Bot Noe & his þre sones And þeir wyues—þe bible hit mones—Were none worthi in Godes sight. Ibid. 14823 Mayster Edmond seis, as me mones. Þat þe Engle hadde nynetene sones. 13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXI. 106/99 Bariona, þat we of mone, hit is to mene ‘a coluer sone’. |
b. const. dat. of person.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 20325 [Mary loq.] I sal mon mi suet sun, He sal te [sc. John] do til him com. Ibid. 24758 Quat time..þat þis bitidd Þat sco was geten..I sal yow mon widvten mis. 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 11888 Now haue ȝe herde þe poyntes twelue... Prestes oghte hem alle to kunne Lewed men to teche and monne. c 1325 Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camden) 336 Ȝwanne thouȝ me tauȝtist on untiȝth, an me gan ther offe mone. a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornton MS. ix. 239 ‘What may þis mene’, quod these men, ‘mone it vs mare’. |
▪ V. mone
obs. f. many, moan, money, moon, mun.