mense (plural menses)
Property, owndom; possessions.
(UK, dialect) manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility
mense (third-person singular simple present menses, present participle mensing, simple past and past participle mensed)
To adorn, bring honour to; grace.
• Semen, menes, mesen, mesne, neems, semen
Source: Wiktionary
Mense, n. Etym: [OE. menske, AS. mennisc human, man. See Man.]
Definition: Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
– Mense"ful, a.
– Mense"less, a.
Mense, v. t.
Definition: To grace. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
