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▪ 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. a1774Fergusson 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.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andreas) 1060 Sa mane we þane trew, þat [etc.]. a1400–50Alexander 1681 Þe men of Medi man, be ȝoure leue, Lang all in oure lawe lely to-gedire. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxi. 54 With sum rewaird we mane him quyt againe. 1577in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 419/1, I man prepair me to keip the same. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue i. ii, To make a conformitie baeth in latine and English, we man begin with the latine. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 112 Maun bauld Britannia bear Batavia's yoke? 1788Burns My bonie Mary, And I maun leave my bonie Mary. 1816Scott Antiq. xxvii, What's dune in the body maun be answered in the spirit. 1894Crockett 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.
1790A. 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. 1895Crockett Men of Moss Hags 226 The thought of his kindness made me like him better than I had manned to do for some time. |
