▪ I. maun, a. Sc.
(mɔːn)
Also 8 maan.
[? repr. attrib. use of ON. magn n.: see main n.]
Great, huge; chiefly associated with mickle.
| 17.. Herd's Coll. (1776) II. 99 A meikle maan lang draket grey goose-pen. a 1774 Fergusson Poems (1789) II. 68 To screen their faces Wi' hats and muckle maun bongraces. |
▪ II. maun, v.1 (pres. ind.) Sc.
(mɒn, mɔːn)
Forms: 4– man, (4–6 mane), 9 mann, 6– maun.
[a. ON. man, pres. t. of munu: see mun v.]
= must v.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andreas) 1060 Sa mane we þane trew, þat [etc.]. a 1400–50 Alexander 1681 Þe men of Medi man, be ȝoure leue, Lang all in oure lawe lely to-gedire. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxxxi. 54 With sum rewaird we mane him quyt againe. 1577 in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 419/1, I man prepair me to keip the same. c 1620 A. Hume Brit. Tongue i. ii, To make a conformitie baeth in latine and English, we man begin with the latine. 1721 Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 112 Maun bauld Britannia bear Batavia's yoke? 1788 Burns My bonie Mary, And I maun leave my bonie Mary. 1816 Scott Antiq. xxvii, What's dune in the body maun be answered in the spirit. 1894 Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 34 Ye maun hae been terrible bonny in thae days! |
▪ III. maun, v.2 Sc.
(mɔːn)
Also man(n.
[a. ON. magna, f. magn: see main n.]
To manage to do.
| 1790 A. Wilson Poems 202 Death's maunt at last to ding me owre. Ibid. (1816) 46 (Jam.) Sud ane o' thae, by lang experience, man To spin out tales. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss Hags 226 The thought of his kindness made me like him better than I had manned to do for some time. |