† menise Obs.
Forms: 5 menuse, -ce, menese, menys(e, 6 menew(e)s, menues, 7 men(u)ise.
[a. OF. menuise, menuse (mod.F. menuise):—L. minūtia: see minutia.]
Small fry.
| c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 104 Menese or loche boiled. Take Menyse or loche, and pike hem faire. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 819 Flowndurs, gogeons, muskels, menuce in sewe. 1508–13 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1867) 280 Menewes in sewe of porpasor of samon. 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 62 Pisciculi minuti..Poissons menus, menuise. Small fishes called menues. 1613 J. D[ennys] Secr. Angling ii. xi. C 4 b, The little Roach, the Menise biting fast. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 507 The small fish, which is called white, are the..Loach, Menuise, and the Trout. |